Articles for tag: bird habitat, Endangered Species, greater sage grouse, sage grouse, wildlife conservation

Wyoming Sage-Grouse Leks Shrink

  Before sunrise in Wyoming’s wide sagebrush basins, the booming, popping chorus of sage-grouse used to sound like a drumline rolling across the frost. Today, the sound still rises, but from fewer, tighter circles – the leks that anchor the species’ mating ritual are ing, shifting, or going silent. Climate extremes are tugging at the ...