Rare wild chicken could become Colorado’s first ‘climate victim’ after failed rescue attempt
Among America’s iconic native birds, the little prairie chicken can be particularly hard to spot – hiding behind shrubbery, rarely emerging except before sunrise in the spring for flamboyant mating dances. But now he could become Colorado’s first climate casualty. A painstaking $428,000 state effort to stave off extinction by moving 205 of these chickens …