Ideally, looking for a mate should be a positive experience. But when you are a sage grouse, it can be hazardous—especially ...

The greater sage-grouse is one of North America’s most iconic and most vulnerable birds. Known for their elaborate mating rituals, male sage grouse gather each spring on open grounds called “leks,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a robo-grouse — and it could help save a fragile ecosystem in national parks across America.

How well can a robotic bird mimic a real one? That’s what Grand Teton National Park is trying to find out with mechanical sage grouse replicas built to influence the behaviors of real sage grouse, ...

Usually, you think of bird decoys as being a tool to lure birds to an untimely encounter with a hunter. However, [Interesting ...

An experimental conservation effort near Grand Teton National Park is testing whether robotic bird decoys — built by high school students — can help lure greater sage grouse into safer habitat as the ...

Near Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a group of high school students is tackling a complex wildlife crisis with an unlikely tool: robotic birds designed to lure a declining species ...

Greater Sage Grouse male, one of the endangered/threatened bird species in the US,performing mating display on lek (breeding ground).© Nattapong Assalee/Shutterstock.com Ideally, looking for a mate ...

Grand Teton National Park is testing robotic sage grouse to influence real birds whose numbers are declining across the American West. Sage grouse are the largest grouse in North America, and their ...