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More than any other characteristic, it is the ruffed grouse's ability to thrive on a wide range of foods that has allowed it to adapt to such a wide and varied range of habitat on this continent. A complete menu of grouse fare might itself fill a book. One grouse crop yielded a live salamander in a salad of watercress. Another contained a small ...
The greater prairie-chicken or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, [2] is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare and extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss . [ 2 ]
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 ...
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 has an annual diet that is ~99% herbivorous, with minor seasonal insectivory [125] [126] Male Chinese grouse are purely herbivorous and females are >90% herbivorous; [ 127 ] hazel grouse males are purely herbivorous, but some females will consume large quantities of insects in spring (although others are nearly purely ...
Ruffed grouse drumming increased this spring in two of three priority areas and the species appears to be on the upward phase of its traditional 10-year population cycle in Wisconsin, according to ...
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 ...
Many species are gamebirds or have been domesticated as a food source for humans. Six species have been recorded in Illinois. Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo (Ex) [notes 1] Ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus (Ex) [notes 2] Sharp-tailed grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus (Ex) Greater prairie-chicken, Tympanuchus cupido [notes 3] Gray partridge ...