Within the sagebrush steppe ecosystem in the intermountain west, sagebrush obligate birds occupy a variety of specialized niches. The purpose of our research was to identify the effect of road presence and habitat covariates on the density of sagebrush obligate birds during their breeding season. Roads through sagebrush threaten local bird abundance through anthropogenic disturbance and habitat fragmentation (Knick et al. 2012). However, research...