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Subspecies of the western capercaillie show increasing amounts of white on the underparts of males distributed west to east, almost wholly black with only a few white spots underneath in western and central Europe to nearly pure white in Siberia, where the black-billed capercaillie is located. There is less variation in the females of this species.
The genus Tetrao was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [1] The genus name is the Latin word for a game bird, probably a black grouse. [2]
Black grouse; Black-throated diver; Common buzzard; Western capercaillie; Common gull; Common sandpiper; Common cuckoo; Eurasian curlew; White-throated dipper
Western capercaillie; White-tailed ptarmigan; Willow ptarmigan This page was last edited on 4 August 2022, at 08:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus; Gray partridge, Perdix perdix; ... They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have ...
A ruffed grouse found at the Kortright Centre for Conservation.. Grouse / ɡ r aʊ s / are a group of birds from the order Galliformes, in the family Phasianidae.Grouse are presently assigned to the tribe Tetraonini (formerly the subfamily Tetraoninae and the family Tetraonidae), a classification supported by mitochondrial DNA sequence studies, [2] and applied by the American Ornithologists ...
The black-billed capercaillie (Tetrao urogalloides), also known as eastern capercaillie, Siberian capercaillie, spotted capercaillie or (in Russian) stone capercaillie, [2] is a large grouse species closely related to the more widespread western capercaillie.
The slopes of the mountains are smooth and are covered with larch taiga.Among the animals found in the region are elk, sable, muskrat, wild reindeer, brown bear, wolverine, black grouse, Western capercaillie, white-tailed eagle, hazel grouse, snow sheep, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, black-capped marmot, brent goose and whooper swan. 999,221 hectares (2,469,130 acres) of the range are a ...