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Sage Grouse

Definition: Sage Grouse

Sage Grouse

Noun

1. Large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America.

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Specialty Definition: Sage Grouse

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Sage Grouse

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Galliformes

Family: Tetraonidae

Genus: Centrocercus

Species: urophasianus

Binomial name

Centrocercus urophasianus

The Sage Grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, is a large grouse.
Adults have a long pointed tail and legs with feathers to the toes. Adult males have a yellow patch over the eye, are greyish on top with a white breast, a dark brown throat and a black belly; two yellowish sacs on the neck are inflated during courtship display. Adult females are mottled grey-brown with a light brown throat and dark belly.
The Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Centrocercus minimus, is almost identical in appearance but about a third smaller in size and restricted in range to southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The largest population resides in the Gunnison Basin region in Colorado.
The breeding habitat for the Sage Grouse is sagebrush country in the western United States and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. They nest on the ground under sagebrush or grass patches.
They are permanent residents. Some move short distances to lower elevations for winter.
These birds forage on the ground. They are mainly eat sagebrush, also insects and other plants. They are not able to digest hard seeds like other grouse.
This bird's numbers are declining due to loss of habitat and its range has shrunk in historical times, having been extirpated from British Columbia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico.
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Synonym: Sage Grouse

Synonym: sage hen (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sage Grouse

English words defined with "sage grouse": Centrocercus ♦ genus Centrocercus ♦ Sage cock, sage hen. (references)

Image Slideshow: Sage Grouse

Photo Album: Sage Grouse

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	Sage Grouse Chick, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.		Deer and Sage Grouse standing in grassy area. Credit: Unknown.
	Many Sage Grouse in a field. Credit: Unknown.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sage Grouse

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sage grouse	14
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Modern Translation: Sage Grouse

Language		Translations for "sage grouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		gélinotte des armoises (sage hen). (various references)

Pig Latin		agesay ousegray.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Sage Grouse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-o-r-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: regauges.
	-3 letters: aerugos, aggress, arguses, arouses, gaseous, gaugers, gougers, greases, grouses, guesser, raggees, regauge, reggaes, reseaus, rugosas, saggers, saugers, seggars, serosae, ureases.
	-4 letters: aerugo, aggers, aggros, agrees, argues, arouse, assure, augers, eagers, eagres, eggars, eggers, egress, erases, eroses, erugos, gagers, gasser, gauger, gauges, gorges, gorses, gouger, gouges, grease, gregos, grouse, gurges, ogress, ragees.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-o-r-s-s-u"
	+3 letters: secretagogues.
	+4 letters: gregariousness.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow

5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams

9. Bibliography

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