Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Galliformes > Phasianidae > Centrocercus > Centrocercus urophasianusCentrocercus urophasianus (Sage Grouse; Greater Sage-Grouse; Greater Sage Grouse)Synonyms: Centrocercus urophasianus phaios; Centrocercus urophasianus urophasianus; Tetrao urophasianus (homotypic) The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse in North America. Its range is sagebrush country in the western United States and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. It was known as simply the sage grouse until the Gunnison sage-grouse was recognized as a separate species in 2000. The Mono Basin population of sage grouse may also be distinct. The species is in decline across its range due to habitat loss and has been recognized as threatened or near threatened by several national and international organizations. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.74541 EDGE Score: 2.25032 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 5.227 lbs (2.371 kg) | | Birth Weight [3] | 31 grams | | Female Weight [5] | 3.847 lbs (1.745 kg) | | Male Weight [5] | 7.033 lbs (3.19 kg) | | Weight Dimorphism [5] | 82.8 % |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Sagebrush | | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Sagebrush | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [4] | 90 % | | Forages - Ground [4] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [6] | 8 | | Clutches / Year [3] | 1 | | Fledging [1] | 14 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 430,000 | | Incubation [3] | 26 days | | Mating Display [7] | Ground display | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 7 years | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 21 inches (53 cm) | | | Female Maturity [3] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [3] | 1 year |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area |
V |
36286 |
Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park |
II |
12551 |
Colorado, United States |
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Bryce Canyon National Park |
II |
36348 |
Utah, United States |
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Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
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Craters of the Moon National Monument |
V |
690996 |
Idaho, United States |
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Curecanti National Recreation Area |
V |
31032 |
Colorado, United States |
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Dinosaur National Monument |
III |
203307 |
Colorado, Utah, United States |
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Fossil Butte National Monument |
III |
8423 |
Wyoming, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Grand Teton National Park |
II |
231724 |
Wyoming, United States |
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Grasslands National Park |
II |
128635 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Great Basin National Park |
II |
77367 |
Nevada, United States |
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Hovenweep National Monument |
V |
770 |
Colorado, Utah, United States |
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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area |
V |
103172 |
Washington, United States |
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Lava Beds National Monument |
III |
20002 |
California, United States |
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Rocky Mountain Biosphere Reserve |
II |
239938 |
Colorado, United States |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Location |
Website |
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Central Rocky Mountain Lowland & Foothill Riparian Forest |
Canada (British Columbia, Alberta); United States (Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming) |
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Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland |
United States (Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah); Canada |
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Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe |
Canada (British Columbia); United States (Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Colorado) |
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Intermountain Low & Black Sagebrush Steppe & Shrubland |
United States (Idaho, Montana, Utah, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada) |
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Intermountain Montane Sagebrush Steppe |
Canada; United States (Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Wyoming) |
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Intermountain Semi-Desert Grassland |
United States (Utah, New Mexico, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, California, Montana, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona) |
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Intermountain Semi-Desert Steppe & Shrubland |
United States (Washington, California, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado) |
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Intermountain Shadscale - Saltbush Scrub |
Mexico (Chihuahua); United States (Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Washington, California, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Texas) |
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Intermountain Western Juniper Open Woodland |
United States (Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon) |
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Rocky Mountain Foothill-Rock Outcrop Limber Pine - Juniper Woodland |
Canada; United States (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Utah, Oregon) |
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Rocky Mountain-Great Basin Lowland-Foothill Riparian Shrubland |
United States (Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, California, South Dakota, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona); Canada (Alberta) |
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Rocky Mountain-Great Basin Montane Riparian Forest |
Canada (British Columbia, Alberta); United States (Washington, Oregon, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona) |
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Vancouverian-Rocky Mountain Montane Wet Meadow & Marsh |
Canada (British Columbia, Alberta); Mexico; United States (Arizona, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Wyoming, North Dakota, New Mexico) |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5Beck, T. D. I., and C. E. Braun. 1978. Weights of Colorado Sage Grouse Condor 80:241-243. ♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 8The Sagebrush Sea by Cornell Lab of Ornithology♦ 9FOOD HABITS AND NEST CHARACTERISTICS OF BREEDING RAPTORS IN SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING, Patricia A. MacLaren, Stanley H. Anderson, and Douglas E. Runde, Great Basin Naturalist Vol. 48, No. 4 pp. 548-553 (1988) ♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 11POTAPOV, E. 2011. Gyrfalcon diet: Spatial and temporal variation In R. T. Watson, T. J. Cade, M. Fuller, G. Hunt, and E. Potapov (Eds.). Gyrfalcons and Ptarmigan in a Changing World. The Peregrine Fund, Boise, Idaho, USA ♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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