These upland birds require cover, plenty of ground forage, and safe locations to nest and roost to avoid predators. For ruffed grouse, there’s nothing better ... To find the different forest types in ...

Galliformes include 290 species of quail, pheasants, turkeys, partridges, grouse, peacocks, guans, curassows, and guinea fowl. Prized as game birds and reared for their meat and eggs, these stout ...

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided not to place the bird on the Endangered Species List. But in 2019, the government allowed drilling on nine million acres of crucial sage grouse habitat ...

The Biden administration on Thursday took steps to safeguard an iconic bird species of the Wester United States — but did so ...

particularly on restoring the declining population of the greater sage-grouse bird, a keystone species in the Great Basin region. Amidst ongoing decline, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted ...

Black grouse, which are seen as an important indicator species for ecosystem health ... The distinctive black, white and red ...

Driving past a few cottonwood trees on a late winter afternoon, I saw about a dozen dark shapes in the dusky light nestled in ...

Protecting the greater sage grouse and its habitat benefits hundreds of other species that depend on the Sagebrush Sea ecosystem. These include pygmy rabbits, pronghorns, elk, mule deer, golden eagles ...

The Center first petitioned to protect bi-state sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act as a distinct population in 2005. After we and our allies filed suit, the Service finally agreed to ...