This is the Greater Sage-Grouse. It’s one of North America’s most extraordinary birds, known for its unique mating dance, as seen in this video. Once numbering in the millions, sage-grouse populations have plummeted due to habitat loss, oil and gas development, and fragmentation of the sagebrush sea. This bird is a permanent resident in its breeding grounds, but moves short distances to lower elevations during winter. It also makes use of a complex lek system in mating. In the spring, males come
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Every year, in late winter and early spring, sage-grouse meet at breeding sites (called leks) to begin a new mating season, and males put on a flashy dance to impress nearby females. They perform this dance across the Sagebrush Sea, which stretches 150 million acres over 13 Western states. Learn more about this iconic species and how TNC is helping to protect their habitat: https://nature.ly/3Z7FDTx 📷: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center | The Nature Conservancy
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