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Phasianidae consists of the pheasants and their allies. These are terrestrial species, variable in size but generally plump with broad relatively short wings. Many species are gamebirds or have been domesticated as a food source for humans. Three species have been recorded in Kentucky. Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo; Ruffed grouse, Bonasa ...
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.
The ruffed grouse will maintain trails through the underbrush and pines like other forest creatures. These can often be found by looking for the bird's feathers on the ground and twigs at the edges of its trail. Hunting of the ruffed grouse requires a good ear and lots of stamina as one will be constantly walking and listening for them in the ...
Bonasa Stephens, 1819 (ruffed grouse) Tetrastes Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 (hazel grouse) Centrocercus Swainson, 1832 (sage-grouse) Dendragapus Elliot, 1864 (blue grouse) Tympanuchus Gloger, 1841 (prairie-chickens and sharp-tailed grouse) Lagopus Brisson, 1760 (ptarmigans) Falcipennis Elliot, 1864 (Siberian grouse) Canachites Stejneger, 1885 ...
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 ...
Ruffed grouse; S. Siberian grouse; Spruce grouse This page was last edited on 2 August 2021, at 01:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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). As of May 2021, there were 439 species on the official list. [1]
The subfamily includes true pheasants, tragopans, grouse, turkey and similar birds. [1] Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the partridges , francolins , and Old World quails ( Perdicinae ) till the early 1990s, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] molecular phylogenies have shown that this placement is paraphyletic.