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Female in Bavarian Forest, Germany Tetrao urogallus urogallus—eggs Male capercaillie marking his territory to a hiker in a Finnish taiga forest. The breeding season of the western capercaillie starts according to spring weather progress, vegetation development and altitude between March and April and lasts until May or June. Three-quarters of ...
The genus name is the Latin word for a game bird, probably a black grouse. [2] The black grouse was included by Linnaeus in the genus Tetrao but is now placed in the genus Lyrurus. [1] [3] The type species was designated as the western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) by George Robert Gray in 1840. [4] [5]
Not much data on the diet of this specific species. Diet consists mostly of insects. Joins mixed flocks to other insectivorous birds, even follows large mammals as they flush insects when they move. Breeding season is from March to June. Nest is a cup made from grass, roots and fibres lined with spider webs. Clutch size is usually 2 to 3 eggs.
The hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia), sometimes called the hazel hen, is one of the smaller members of the grouse family of birds.It is a sedentary species, breeding across the Palearctic as far east as Hokkaido, and as far west as eastern and central Europe, in dense, damp, mixed coniferous woodland, preferably with some spruce.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' agriculture ministry said it was banning the imports of birds and poultry products from Australia because of a bird flu outbreak in Australian states.
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 ban, which aims to protect the health of the Philippines' poultry population, covers imports of domesticated and wild birds, including poultry meat and eggs, the ministry said in a statement.
The grey francolin was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.He placed it with all the grouse like birds in the genus Tetrao and coined the binomial name Tetrao pondicerianus. [2]