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 ...

I had a poor season, which is not especially unusual for me, but the majority of the guys with whom I kibitz about grouse hunting did, too.

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— 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 ...

When Bill Hartline bought 50 acres of forested land outside Muncy, Pennsylvania, he was looking for a bit of solitude and a place to eventually build a new home in retirement. But during a camping ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, state biologists in New York have captured wild spruce grouse in northern Maine and Canada, and relocated them to remote boreal forests in the northern Adirondacks. The spruce ...

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 ...

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 ...