Greater Sage-Grouse
| Centrocercus urophasianus | Order: Galliformes | Family: Phasianidae (Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies) |
Centrocercus urophasianus
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae (Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies)
This extraordinary bird of sagebrush country in the West has one of the most spectacular, and bizarre, courtship displays in the bird world. Males gather in leks, displaying to one another as females saunter by, mating with their favorites.
Being a favorite of hunters and falconers is not the reason sage grouse are disappearing—it’s their need for sagebrush, and their antipathy for any tall structures anywhere near where they live.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Migration Update 2021
- Helping Lesser Prairie-Chickens and the People Who Help Them 2017
- Endangered Species Act Revisited 2014
- Giving Up Beef for Bird Conservation 2013
- My Big Year So Far, Part II: The Joys and Frustrations of Birding All Over 2013
- April Morning in a Kansas Prairie-Chicken lek 2013
- Wide Open Country That I Love 2013
- So Much Violence 2013
- Endangered Species Act 2012
- Conservation Big Year: 2013? 2011
- Minnesota Power to Install Flight Diverters to Protect Whooping Cranes 2010
- State of the Birds, 2009 2009
- Northern Pintail 2007
- Sharp-tailed Grouse 2006
- Loggerhead Shrike 2005
- Birds in the News: Introducing Big Game Animals to America 2005
- Florida Scrub-Jay 2005
- Pale Male Controvery 2004
- Sage Grouse in Trouble 2004
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow 2004
- Birds in the News 2004
- Gambling 2000
- Eureka! 1996
- Searching for the Elusive Sage Grouse 1996
- Kowabunga! 1996
- Colorado Trip 1996
- Book Review: Birdfinder, A Birder's Guide to Planning North American Trips 1996
- Searching for the Elusive Sage Grouse 1995