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The sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus), also known as the sharptail or fire grouse, is a medium-sized prairie grouse. One of three species in the genus Tympanuchus , the sharp-tailed grouse is found throughout Alaska , much of Northern and Western Canada , and parts of the Western and Midwestern United States .
Plains sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesi) Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) Snow goose (Chen caerulescens) Sprague's pipit (Anthus spragueii) Upland sandpiper ...
Ruffed grouse is the preferred common name because it applies only to this species. Misleading vernacular names abound, however, and it is often called partridge (sometimes rendered pa'tridge, or shortened to pat), [ 7 ] pheasant, or prairie chicken, all of which are properly applied to other birds. [ 8 ]
Turkeys and grouse have also been recognized as having their origins in the pheasant- and partridge-like birds. Until the early 1990s, this family was broken up into two subfamilies : the Phasianinae , including pheasants , tragopans , junglefowls , and peafowls ; [ 4 ] and the Perdicinae , including partridges , Old World quails , and ...
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.
Jul. 18—BISMARCK — Spring counts for two of North Dakota's grouse species — sharp-tailed grouse and sage grouse — were down from last year, but ruffed grouse numbers are up, the Game and ...
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The sharp-tailed grouse is the official provincial bird of Saskatchewan. This list of birds of Saskatchewan includes all the bird species confirmed in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan as determined by Nature Saskatchewan. As of September 2017, there were 436 species on the Nature Saskatchewan checklist. [1]