Suddenly, a bird flew off a small bank on the right ... I then realized what was happening. A female ruffed grouse was protecting her chicks. The Idaho State Journal invites you to take part ...

When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing. Indeed, new Yale research into these prairie-dwelling birds confirms that ...

Gallinaceous refers to chicken-like birds, including both grouse and ... the chestnut brown tip of the tail on both male and female spruce grouse. Otherwise, the females might be mistaken for ...

(Female Gunnison sage-grouse outnumber males almost two to one.) Once found across the West, the population has shrunk along with thousands of acres of vanished sagebrush habitat. Ninety percent of ...

Black Grouse raise only one brood of chicks every year. The bird nests on the ground in a shallow depression called a scrape which it lines with grass and moss. The female lays between 6-11 eggs ...

Recruitment is defined as number of juvenile birds per adult female. This year the grouse recruitment was 2.3 juveniles per adult female, lowest in the 42-year history of the national hunt.

When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing.