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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Famous for their displays during the spring breeding season, sage grouse inhabit the steppes of the American west. Big birds, they can weigh up to 6 pounds, and they can look even bigger when they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Gallagher is the head gamekeeper at a moor on the North Pennines, where there will be no grouse shoots - LORNE ...