Sharp-tailed Grouse | Montana FWP
网页Sharp-tailed grouse are an excellent model species to evaluate the effects of grazing and rangeland management on prairie obligates because they depend on diverse high quality grassland habitats distributed across broad landscapes.
Sage Grouse | Montana FWP
网页An icon of the American West, sage-grouse are found throughout Montana’s sagebrush steppe grasslands. This large grouse is well-known for its elaborate courtship displays. Each spring male grouse congregate at dawn on display grounds, called leks, and strut with tail feathers fanned and make popping noises with their bulbous air sacs.
(Family) Upland Game Birds - Montana Field Guide
网页Montana Field Guide contains a wealth of information about Montana's diverse species.
Ruffed Grouse | Montana Audubon
网页2014年9月1日 · This grouse is widespread in most of our mountain ranges preferring aspen clones in the foothills and sticking to mixed-conifer woodlands higher in the montane forest zone. They are omnivorous but feed generally on berries, leaf buds and other vegetation.
Dusky Grouse | Montana FWP
网页Dusky grouse (formerly ‘blue grouse’) are a popular mountain forest grouse game species in Montana. This is a large grouse (larger than spruce grouse, smaller than a wild turkey) that lives in mountain forests, especially those dominated by ponderosa and lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, and firs.
Sharp-tailed Grouse - Montana Field Guide
网页Until recently, Sharp-tailed Grouse in Montana were found west of the Continental Divide in larger mountain valleys with extensive native bunchgrass-shrub stands. However, they have now apparently been extirpated, or nearly extirpated, …
Montana Sage Grouse
网页The Montana Sage Grouse habitat Conservation Program works to sustain viable sage grouse populations and conserve habitat. Montana’s Sage Grouse Conservation Strategy is based on the collaborative work of diverse Stakeholders.
Montana’s mountain grouse offer long seasons in high country
网页2020年9月26日 · Montana has multiple native grouse species. The prairie and breaks country are prime areas for sharp-tailed and sage grouse. The central and western mountains are home to blue grouse, also known as dusky grouse, ruffed grouse, and spruce grouse, sometimes called Franklin’s grouse.
Dusky Grouse - Montana Field Guide
网页The Dusky Grouse (until recently known as the Blue Grouse) is the largest of Montana's three species of mountain grouse. Both sexes have long, square tails which are unbarred. Males have slate-colored upper parts, white-based neck feathers around the air sacs, and yellow-orange eye combs.
Spruce Grouse - Flathead Audubon Society
网页Spruce Grouse inhabit the northern coniferous forests of North America. In the western quarter of Montana (including the eastern slope of the Continental Divide), they’re generally associated with spruce-fir forests.