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 ...

WASHINGTON— The Bureau of Land Management’s “Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning” was released today and lays out the agency’s intentions for 65 million acres of the bird’s habitat on public lands ...

Eight regional volunteer working groups were tasked with implementing the state’s conservation plan for the iconic, embattled ...

DEC said the efforts should ensure the population is sustained for the next 100 years.

CASPER - One of several citizens' groups working on ways to preserve sage grouse has proposed making the sage grouse Wyoming's state bird. The title currently belongs to the Western meadowlark - and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sage grouse are the largest member of the grouse family in North America. They’re a chicken-like bird with a maximum height of 2 feet and length of about 2.5 feet. Male birds are twice as large as ...

I’ve come to appreciate ruffed grouse more than any other bird, and its “shapeshifter” ability is a prime reason why. A male ruffed grouse is strutting in a declaration of self-importance. With tail ...

Wyoming's official state bird will remain the Western meadowlark, at least for now. The Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Interim Committee decided Tuesday to not sponsor a ...