In the wide, whispering prairies of coastal Texas, this grassland heir moves through tall bluestem with measured resolve. It feeds on seeds, shoots, and insects, shaping the prairie floor with every careful step. What makes it extraordinary is its ancient courtship ritual — at dawn, males gather to dance and boom across open ground, a sound once woven into miles of unbroken grass. Grounded and wary, yet deeply tied to fire, rain, and space, a living heartbeat of a vanishing prairie.
Attwater’s Prairie-chicken 👇
