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First, the Lesser Prairie Chicken is not your Colonel Sanders variety of chicken.

Second, this situation just drips with irony that is completely missing from this article. The LPC nests in the open in the prairie grasses which are actually on the increase as family farms disappear across the heartland. But, the LPC is a squirrely little bird and the oddest of things can disrupt their nesting patterns. It turns out that the greatest threat to the LPC is the wind turbine. They just don’t like the things and won’t nest anywhere near them. Bye bye prairie chicken as well as large numbers of raptors who are knocked senseless running into spinning turbine blades.

The enviro wackos are killing all these wild critters. Members of Congress are on the side of the enviro wackos on this one. Their constituents are making big bucks leasing prairie lands to wind turbine farms, so the fact that both the ranchers and the politicians are Republicans gets conveniently forgotten since money is involved.

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It turns out that the greatest threat to the LPC is the wind turbine.

Thanks for the insight. We can be assured that the NYT will never divulge this little tidbit.

Just as a theory, the thumping of the rotors might imitate the drumming of the males, which would interfere with their mating rituals.

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Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation and Wind Development in the Texas Panhandle