Dusky grouse are effectively camouflaged and cryptic much of the year, but when it comes to the spring mating season, the males are bright and bold In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING — Dusky grouse males seemed to be especially testy during mating season. One of the feathered bruisers even took on a Washington Fish and Wildlife policeman . Montana outdoor ...

ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST —The hefty bird burst from behind a bush in a startling eruption of wings and feathers, muted shades of gray and white briefly visible through thinning autumn foliage. “Grouse!” ...

EAGLE COUNTY — How it is that the lark bunting came to be the Colorado state bird is anyone’s guess. The sparrow, and a fall migrator at that, is hardly representative of the state’s character or its ...

LAS CRUCES - Climate change will likely wipe out populations of a forest-dwelling grouse native to the Rocky Mountains over the coming decades, but catastrophic wildfires may hasten the species’ ...

Although it is a rather common year-round resident of Teller County, Dusky Grouse are reclusive so are not seen very often. Most of my observations have been while hiking or driving along trails and ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union split the species known as the blue grouse into two species -- dusky and sooty grouse. Washington is the only state where the ranges of these two very ...

That low booming sound means dusky grouse are in love. It also means don’t get too close. Last year Barb and Tom Wilberding were out hiking when a grouse “shyly approached us,” said Tom. “It stepped ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Researchers at New Mexico State University predict that the dusky grouse will lose almost all of its habitat by the end of the 21st century due to climate change. The dusky grouse ...

In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis and Clark and guided by Sacagawea pushed through the Rocky Mountains, they found and described dusky grouse, Dendragapus obscurus. In the Cascade ...