BUFFALO — On Johnson County’s most remote stretches of land, across the sagebrush sea, Greater Sage-Grouse finish the most consequential part of their day before most humans have had their coffee. As ...

SOLON SPRINGS, Wis. — We could hear them before we saw them, when the light in the eastern sky was still dim. It was a sort of cooing sound at first. Then clucks and something like muffled owl hoots.

Then it doesn’t look good at all. Especially when one considers the needs of the sagebrush’s emblematic bird, the sage grouse. Here, on a flat near Tomichi Creek, biologist Jessica Young examines a ...

Sometime in this life, I want to attend a sage grouse dance in southwestern North Dakota. Books describe sage grouse courting. Recordings capture the sounds they make. Pictures freeze the birds in ...

ROGERSON — About a dozen birds fly in at about 4:30 a.m. from all directions, like a rag-tag squadron of chicken-sized helicopters. It takes a minute for all the male grouse to arrive at the small ...

Deep in Oregon’s sagebrush country, there’s one county with an abundance of ravens. Biologists say those ravens like to eat sage grouse eggs, and they’ve come up with plans to take care of the raven ...

JUST OFF GROUSE ROAD — We could hear them before we saw them, when the light in the eastern sky was still dim. It was a sort of cooing sound at first. Then clucks and something like muffled owl hoots.