Plains Sharp-tailed Grouse

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Plains Sharp-tailed Grouse
Colorado Division of Wildlife

Habitat: The plains sharp-tailed grouse use rolling hills with scrub oak thickets and grassy glades. As an equivalent to sagebrush, they use scrub oaks, serviceberries and willows. These brushy sites provide critical winter shelter and food sources. Typically, the plains grouse occupies medium to tall grasslands for courtship and nesting.

Diet: Diets include a variety of forbs, grasses and insects. In winter, sharp-tailed grouse also feed on buds and catkins of deciduous trees or shrubs and berries. Birds are also known to feed on the buds of aspen and willow.

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