CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Interior Department said Tuesday it won't propose federal protections for the greater sage grouse, a chicken-sized bird of the sagebrush that ranges from California to the ...

A bill to continue greater sage grouse bird farming — a controversial practice adopted by Wyoming in 2017 in addition to other conservation efforts for the sage grouse — passed a third reading in the ...

Ruffed grouse are elusive and stealthy, but scientists are seeking a genetic explanation for why some of the birds become best buddies with people. A tame grouse near Muncy, Pa., who befriended a ...

The greater sage-grouse is a chubby bird, with a speckled body and stumpy feet. The male has a bright yellow sac on his chest that inflates like a life jacket, and a spiky tail that fans out when he's ...

Of all the species of gallinaceous birds that occur in Minnesota, only sharp-tailed grouse, also called "sharptails," and ...

At least a few times each year people in the forests of Pennsylvania encounter what they universally describe as a tame or friendly, ruffed grouse. The grouse - the state bird of Pennsylvania - is ...

The U.S. Department of Interior has decided that the greater sage grouse, a peculiar and distinctly Western bird, does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act. In a statement, Interior ...

WHAT IS A SAGE GROUSE? Mottled brown and easily overlooked in their native setting as a rock or a piece of wood, the sage grouse is not much to look at until spring breeding season. That’s when the ...