scotica, America:
Centrocercus urophasianus, Tympanuchus cupido, Bonasa umbellus).
Findings for Petitions To List the Greater Sage-Grouse (
CentrocercusOur objectives are to report on (1) the historical distribution of sage-grouse in New Mexico based on the fossil record and the published literature and (2) the well-intentioned releases of greater sage-grouse (
Centrocercus urophasianus) in attempts to establish that species in areas within the state where sage-grouse had been extirpated or where suitable habitat was believed to exist.
A male sage grouse (
Centrocercus urophasianus) struts for a female at a lek, an open area where males perform courtship displays.
Current examples of efforts to stabilize populations to avoid the need to list include the greater sage grouse (
Centrocercus urophasianus), the New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis), and the eastern population of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).
(91.) 12-Month Finding for a Petition to List the Washington Population of Western Sage Grouse (
Centrocercus urophasianus phaios), 66 Fed.
Butterflies are of conservation interest as bioindicators (Hammond and McCorkle 1984, New 1997), pollinators (Ehrlich 2003), prey for other species (Guppy and Shepard 2001) including Greater Sage-Grouse,
Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte), (Gregg 2006), and as charismatic conservation taxa.
Personnel at the Yakima Training Center, Washington, have managed their population of the Columbia Basin greater sage-grouse (
Centrocercus uropbasianus) through fire control, habitat management, and population enhancement to ensure this distinct population segment (DPS) does not dwindle.
The greater sage-grouse
Centrocercus urophasianus (hereafter sage-grouse), a lekking game bird species of the sagebrush (Artemisia) ecosystem, was once widespread throughout the Intermountain West and harvested in every state in which it occurred (Reese and Connelly 2011).
Greater Sage-Grouse (
Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter Sage-Grouse) are a polygynous galliform that inhabits the sagebrush steppe of western North America.
If you were perched on a lava rock crag amidst a sea of sagebrush, you were listening to bubbling pops and wing-swishing of male greater sage-grouse (
Centrocercus urophasianus) on their breeding grounds, called leks.