Greater Sage-Grouse

Greater Sage-Grouse
Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
also known as the Sage-Grouse
Species Code: CEUR ...

Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
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GREATER SAGE-GROUSE FACTS
Description
The Sage grouse is a chicken like bird, and is the largest grouse in North American. Males have a dark grey head, black throat and yellow lores.

Greater sage-grouse are distributed from north-central Oregon, southern Idaho, and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan south to eastern California and extreme western North and South Dakota.

The greater sage-grouse was considered conspecific with the Gunnison Sage-Grouse (Centrocerus minimus) until 2000, when the two were declared separate species by the American Ornithological Union.

Efforts in these and other states to preserve western brush lands for other species, like the Greater Sage-Grouse, Gunnison Sage-Grouse, and the California Gnatcatcher, may benefit this sparrow.

Rowland MM, Wisdom MJ, Suring LH & Meinke CW. (2006). Greater sage-grouse as an umbrella species for sagebrush-associated vertebrates. Biological Conservation. vol 129, no 3. p. 323-335.

See also: Grouse, Ruffe, Ruffed Grouse, Grasshopper, Martin