Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greater Sage Grouse male, one of the endangered/threatened bird species in the US,performing mating display on lek (breeding ...

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.

Scientists are enlisting robots to help conserve one of the most beloved birds in the American West. At Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, experts have deployed two dancing robotic birds meant to ...

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, ...

Officials hope lifelike decoys will lure sage-grouse away from a dangerous airport zone Conservationists in Wyoming are using papier-mâché robotic decoys to protect the greater sage-grouse near ...

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 ...

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

A shrinking sage grouse population faces danger from planes, prompting an unusual robot-assisted rescue effort.