The University of Idaho recently released the finalized results of their 10-year study looking into the impacts of grazing on ...

A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes while preserving traditions at the heart of their culture.

Natural camouflage is one of nature’s greatest gifts in the animal kingdom. Sure, some animals have deadly toxins or surgically sharp claws, but these are active forms of defense. Camouflage is the ...

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 ...

Through my spotting scope, I could make out the jagged halo of tail feathers belonging to a male Gunnison sage-grouse. On a distant ridge, a group of sage-grouse leapt and whirled in a striking ...

The male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse species in North America and puts on one of the most spectacular mating rituals. Their range spans the Sagebrush Sea ...

For now, in the North York Moors, people are enjoying seeing and hearing the black grouse once again. "It's been a long time since they were here and I'm really happy" says ornithologist John Cavana.

In south-central Washington’s patchwork of sagebrush and agricultural fields, one man is spending his early, early mornings searching for sage grouse. If he finds the quirky birds — that could ...

Black grouse don’t live longer than a few years.) Furthermore, not content with fancy feathers, the hens have over evolutionary time trained the males to corral themselves together to show their wares ...

Spruce grouse ultimately benefited from an outbreak of spruce budworms in New Hampshire that ended in 1983. Spruce budworms are the larvae of a native moth that tend to recur in a 40 year cycle.

Black grouse are red listed as a species of high conservation concern. The project will involve capturing the birds at night and relocating them immediately to a specially selected site on the ...