A female prairie chicken wearing a GPS tracking collar surprised and puzzled biologists this summer by traveling 1,165 miles in big circles in southern Iowa and northern Missouri. The hen, labeled Bird No. 112, was trapped in western Nebraska and released on April 4 near the Missouri border, north of Bethany, for a prairie chicken restoration project. Since then, she has avoided fatal dangers such as predators, vehicles, fences and utility lines in a ceaseless journey which has slowed but not stopped.
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