Greater sage grouse are sexually dimorphic, meaning the male and female look different. Females are small and football-shaped, with a black belly and white-speckled feathers, while males resemble ...

Every spring, male sage grouse gather to strut their stuff in riveting mating rituals. Punctuating their displays with swishing, hooting and popping sounds, males bob their heads, fan their tail ...

This would be the place that, hopefully, male sage grouse would one day routinely gather to puff out their chest and strut as part of their elaborate display to attract a mate. “Ideally ...

But the same male sage grouse returned, fewer each year as they died out. By the end, only one male remained, fanning his ...

But in some species, behaviours that look like intricate dance steps play a very important role. The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is a mottled grey-brown bird found in shrubland in ...

Sage grouse are strong fliers with recorded speeds up to 78 km hour Leks – the display ground used by males - can be 100s of years old, birds return to the same breeding grounds year upon year.

The Canadian government is attempting to save the quickly disappearing greater sage grouse by restricting construction and loud industrial noise near its habitat during certain times of the year.

Therefore, there is a need to assess whether bentonite mining impacts the sage-grouse population in the Bighorn Basin. We initiated our study in spring 2011 through capturing male and female grouse in ...

Human-Wildlife Interactions Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2013 Occurrence and success of greater sage-g... Occurrence and success of greater sage-grouse broods in relation to insect-vegetation community ...

With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed are running into a financial roadblock.

Brett French Lee Newspapers Dec 23, 2024 Dec 23, 2024 With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being ...