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The ruffed grouse is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "partridge", an unrelated phasianid, and occasionally confused with the grey partridge, a bird of open areas rather than woodlands. [3] The ruffed grouse is the state game bird of Pennsylvania, United States. [4]
Having first inhabited Pennsylvania between 16,000 and 10,000 BCE, [24] nomadic Native Americans reached the area near the mouth of Fishing Creek by 8000 BCE. [25] By 3000 to 2000 BCE, some of them were going into the Fishing Creek valley during the winter to hunt deer and bears and returning to the Susquehanna River in the summer, creating ...
The ruffed grouse, the official state bird of Pennsylvania. This list of birds of Pennsylvania includes species documented in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and accepted by the Pennsylvania Ornithological Records Committee (PORC).
How long has ODNR collected turkey and ruffed grouse observations? Summer observations for wild turkeys have been collected since 1962, and grouse since 1999. How does ODNR keep track of the birds?
Ruffed grouse typically follow a 10-year population cycle, with peaks occurring in years that end in 0, 1 or 9. Recent data indicate ruffed grouse in Wisconsin are entering the upswing of the ...
Pennsylvania never chose an official state bird, but did choose the ruffed grouse as the state game bird. [3] Alaska, California, and South Dakota permit hunting of their state birds. Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee have designated an additional "state game bird" for the purpose of hunting.
Hunting and furtaking species include deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), mink (Neovison vison), rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus), Raccoon (Procyon lotor), squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), and turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).
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