#Sage Grouse

[wild-special-interests]

The insects and flowering plants that provide protection and essential nutrition for sage-grouse chicks are disappearing. Industrial development, along with impacts such as drought, wildfire, and invasive species that are amplified due to climate change have degraded and destroyed millions of acres of vital sage grouse habitat. You can take action today to help.

Tell the Biden Administration you support plans to protect and restore sagebrush habitat so sage-grouse—and many other species—can survive.

[herpsandbirds]

Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), male displaying, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, western U.S.

photograph by @jc_wings

[antiqueanimals]

Sage Grouse. Ron Jenkins. Montana Outdoors. Sept./Oct. 1978. Vol. 9, No. 5.

Internet Archive

[cadere-art]

Sage grouse.

[scottpartridge]

California Sage Grouse, day 23 of #birbfest2024 . I wasn't sure what makes this type of #sagegrouse unique, but I added elements of the #california flag. #Birbfest is hosted by @monkeymintaka this year and created by @birdietam.art #birb @birbfest.challenge

[olessan]

[sumbluespruce]

Strutton his stuff

3/28/24

[speedyz3]

I scored on the bird I was looking for this morning. Well worth the drive in the dark and the snow to get the chance to get a few shots of the male Sage Grouse strutting their stuff. Mission accomplished.

[dinobeates]

I will be participating in a #Dinovember Prompt List this year! My current plan is to make one chibi-ish design a day to sell as an adoptable, which can be claimed on my Telegram art channel, my FurAffinity, my Instagram, or my BlueSky.

Prompt List: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBrsoNsMfRC/

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Day 10: Sage Grouse Dacentrurus Claim: $10 [comment or message to claim]

[birdblues]

Greater Sage-grouse

[ghostpyre]

Male Greater Sagegrouse, lekking season

(GMCA, WY, 2023)

[weirdanimal-tournament]

Round 1 Match 48

Hallucigenia: "Looks like a walking stick thingie with a bunch of other stick thingies to maybe walk or swim with?? like a worm with stick legs but no one akshually knows what it quite is"

Sage Grouse: "The males have big beautiful boobies that they use to sing wtih"

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

Conservation groups announced today an agreement with mining company P4 that will result in millions of dollars in payments and other significant measures to benefit the conservation of sage grouse and other wildlife.

Under the agreement, P4 — a subsidiary of Bayer AG — agrees to contribute more than $5 million to a trust fund for sage grouse habitat restoration and conservation, more than $2.4 million to acquire land to protect wildlife habitat connectivity, and $300,000 for sage grouse population surveys. The company also agrees to operational restrictions of its Caldwell Canyon phosphate mine in southeast Idaho to minimize the mine’s impact on sage grouse.

“This is an important step toward addressing the environmental damage from the Caldwell Canyon mine,” said Sarah Stellberg, a staff attorney with Advocates for the West. “The conservation funds also offer new hope for southeastern Idaho wildlife, waters and communities still suffering from a century of phosphate mine contamination.”

The agreement resolves a 2021 lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians challenging a decision by the Bureau of Land Management to approve approximately 1,559 acres of ecologically important land essential to the imperiled greater sage grouse and other species to be strip-mined for phosphate. The conservation groups were represented by Advocates for the West, the public-interest law firm Smith & Lowney, and in-house counsel with the Center for Biological Diversity.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“Strut Performer”

Sage Grouse

United States of America.

by Ly Dang

All images © Bird Photographer of the Year

[cockmoment-theblog]

Round 1, Match 22 - Greater Sage-Grouse vs. Yellow-Crested Helmetshrike

All propaganda is welcome in replies/reblogs!

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Some females also chase others in the group and try to mount them, and "pile-ups" of three or four females all mounted on each other sometimes develop.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl