sage grouse
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- noun
- /seɪdʒ ɡraʊs/
- US
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gallo de las salvia
- The sage grouse is known for its distinctive call, which can be heard during its courtship rituals.
- sage grouse habitat
When the bird goes down on a sage grouse, the eagle will see that from miles away and go down and eat both the grouse and the hawk.
- When the bird goes down on a sage grouse, the eagle will see that from miles away and go down and eat both the grouse and the hawk.
Examples
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The study further found that sage grouse populations were negatively impacted by cheatgrass invasion and suggested that more frequent drought and increased spread of exotic grasses under warming climate conditions would further reduce sage grouse habitat.
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Sage-grouse capturing and marking were conducted during spring and fall months to ensure that locations were collected throughout the annual cycle.
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Um, so the sage-grouse were always gonna be part of this decision to manage this herd.
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Given the results of this study, we should expect changes in sage-grouse movement behavior and subsequent consequences in survival.
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The results indicate that 1) sage-grouse are moving faster through environments.
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And how they can say it's solely the wild horses that are the reason that the sage-grouse are not rebounding seems a little bit absurd to me.
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We also removed all nocturnal locations from the data set because sage-grouse are active during diurnal periods and inactive at night.
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Collectively, these novel studies provide keen insight into how and why sage-grouse move through and select habitat within a landscape, as well as the resulting fitness consequences of those decisions.
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During the spring mating season, male sage grouse perform elaborate displays to attract females.
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Efforts to protect the habitat of the sage grouse are crucial for its conservation and survival.
Synonyms
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A large brown bird that lives in dry areas with low sage bushes in North America
A large ground bird that lives in North American sagebrush areas
A group of large North American birds called sage grouse that live in sagebrush
Surface Forms
Morphology
sage + grouse
The meaning — a species of grouse associated with sage/sagebrush habitat — is directly derivable from combining 'sage' (the plant/habitat) and 'grouse' (a bird): it is a straightforward noun–noun compound naming a type of bird. This compositional, non-idiomatic pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Sage grouse comes from the bird being a type of grouse that lives among low sage bushes in western North America. Picture a big bird doing a strange dance on open ground among the sage, and that image explains why the name means a grouse from the sagebrush 'where it lives'.