Utah Bird Profile
  Gunnison Sage-Grouse - Centrocercus minimus

Name Roots: (Gr. kentron, "a point"; kerkos, "tail" - L. minimus, "smallest")

In Utah:   
by Paul Higgins

Other Photos - ID / Song

Nesting,
feeding,
characteristic behaviors:
Nests on the ground in a scrape nest. This species is not a cowbird host. This species is a herbivore: ground forager.
  
Habitat: Breeds in Utah in shrubsteppe habitat.
  
How to find: Sightings in Utah
   

|   newly split from Sage Grouse   |      USGS Profile | US Winter Range  |  US Summer Range  |
  

Occur. (RP)  Recently split from Sage Grouse

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