Dueling claims about the fate of the Gunnison sage-grouse are at the heart of several cases before a federal court, trying to sort out the bird's listing under the Endangered Species Act. The state of ...

The ruffed grouse has been Pennsylvania's state bird since 1931.This brown, chicken-like bird gets its name from the black "ruffs" on the side of its neck.It was an important part of the food supply ...

SEATTLE - Despite making clear that sage grouse in the American West warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act, the Obama Administration declined to actually do so Friday. The turkey-sized ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse” and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation organizations submitted comments today blasting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s draft amendment for 77 land-use plans across the western United States intended to protect ...

As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

Greater sage grouse are a popular topic in Idaho and the West these days. Idaho is one of 11 western states where sage grouse reside. Sage grouse live in Central and Southern Idaho Rangelands. All of ...

U.S. Interior Department officials seem to be intent on listing the greater and Gunnison sage grouse as threatened, a move that Gov. John Hickenlooper's point man said would be disastrous to continued ...

The Sage Grouse Initiative was a huge ecological experiment across 11 western states when it launched in 2010. But participants say it has proved to be an unprecedented success in conserving the ...

Pennsylvania’s state bird population is on an upward trend despite years of decline from West Nile virus. According to Lisa Williams, the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s division chief of wildlife ...