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prairie chicken

prai·rie chick·en (plural prai·rie chick·ens)


noun 
Definition:
 
grouse found on U.S. grasslands: a game bird of the grouse family that has mottled brownish feathers, the male of which has inflatable air sacs on its throat that it uses in courtship. Native to: grasslands of North America.  Genus Tympanuchus.

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