A greater prarie chicken is not a mammal for the fact that it lays eggs. Mammals are animals that give birth to live babies.
The above answer is only partly correct in that the greater prairie chicken (a grouse) is not a mammal, but not because it lays eggs, it is because it does not have mammary (milk) glands, sometimes called teats or tits. Some mammals do, in fact, lay eggs (such as the platypus), but they still feed their newborns from mammary glands. Therefore, not all mammals give birth to live babies (though most do), but all mammals have mammary glands, thus the name mammal.
The greater prairie chicken is a bird that belongs to the grouse family. Its classification is that it belongs to the class Aves, order Galliformes, family Phasianidae, and species Tympanuchus cupido. The greater prairie chicken is found in prairie regions of North America.
beats me all the websites i looked on just said stuff about grass height
There are two birds known as a Prairie Chicken with different scientific names: * Greater Prairie Chicken: (tympanuchus cupido) * Lesser Prairie Chicken: (tympanuchus pallidicinctus)
they definitely eat worms or producers
There are 2 versions the Lesser and Greater Prairie Chicken Wikipedia has articles on both Lesser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Prairie_Chicken Greater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Prairie_Chicken They say it is a distant relative of the Grouse.
It's the North American Heath Hen, related to the Greater Prairie Chicken, but not an actual chicken.
Wikipedia said 459 000 but that seems oddly high
A chicken is not a mammal.
Attwater's Prairie Chicken was created in 1893.
The Attwater's Prairie-Chicken of southeastern Texas, is nearly extinct.
The scientific or taxonomic name would be Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus.
chicken.