Good news for the Greater Sage Grouse. More than one million acres of essential sage grouse habitat is safe from oil and gas leasing for now. Read more about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision HERE . Learn more about sage grouse habitat and the many other species that occupy these open spaces. Follow and share our blog, Chicks on a Grouse Trip to help spread the word. Join a birding/photography workshop and experience the wildness of grouse for yourself! Join the North American Grouse Partnership and be a key voice for grouse conservation.  Thanks for your support!

The North American Grouse Partnership published our article on the Attwater's Prairie Chicken in its Fall 2024 Annual Report.  

  I just came across this video from Working Lands for Wildlife and thought I'd share. I've been following their work for sometime now and am impressed with the organization. Since Christine and I advocate for all US grouse species, the work by this group seems to have found a way to get things done. Enjoy! Click HERE for the video.

 It has been a whirlwind two weeks on the road in south Texas this spring for Christine and I. We did our best to learn about the federal and state endangered Attwater's prairie chicken.  (Gamma grass and Texas bluebells, prairie habitat for the Attwater's prairie chicken) If you are joining us for the first time or returning to learn more, welcome! Thanks for visiting. This is our fourth year documenting different grouse species, during the breeding season, across the United States. Our goal is to learn all we can about this key species that lives on the vanishing prairie and to bring awareness to our audience. We invite you to check out previous posts to follow our adventures and learn about grouse with us. This year we targeted a subspecies of the greater prairie chicken (GPC) known as the Attwater's prairie chicken (APC) which is found only on the coastal prairie biome of south Texas.  Disclaimer : Our intent is to always bring you stories of "wild & free"...

  Conservation of Grouse in the Wild, Wild West Want to know more about North American grouse species? Watch this informative, one-hour program prepared for San Diego Audubon's 2024 Bird Festival all about grouse and learn where Chicks on a Grouse Trip are headed next.  Select the image above and you will be taken to the recording.

Christine and I are off to Texas this year in search of the Attwater's Prairie Chicken (APC).  What does this grouse species look like? We'll we like to start off with an image but unfortunately because this bird is on the Texas Endangered Species List, we don't have picture yet! But we plan to share images and stories of our journey finding APC with grouse lovers and readers of this blog soon.  In the meantime, check out the link HERE to quench your curiosity and get more familiar with the APC. And see an image and article about them HERE .  Enjoy and we will be back in March with more news of our success in the field.                                                            ...