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The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), also known as the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather cock, cock-of-the-woods, or simply capercaillie / ˌ k æ p ər ˈ k eɪ l (j) i /, [3] is a heavy member of the grouse family and the largest of all extant grouse species. The heaviest-known specimen, recorded in captivity, had a weight ...
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]
Based on data collected between 2000 and 2003 by Pollo et al. (2005), [4]: 401 the distribution of Cantabrian capercaillie on the southern slope of the Cantabrian Mountains is fragmented into 13 small subpopulations: four in the western area and 9 in the eastern. Six subpopulations (5 in the eastern and 1 in the western) contained only one ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Croatia. ... Western capercaillie, Tetrao ... The family occurs mostly in southern to western Eurasia and surroundings ...
The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is the regional bird of Central Finland. [3] The largest lake in the very water-based region is Lake Päijänne (1,080 km 2). Other large lakes are Lake Keitele (490 km2), Lake Konnevesi (190 km 2) and Lake Kivijärvi (150 km 2).
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Compared to the western capercaillie, it is slightly smaller in size with a slimmer body profile and longer neck, has a black beak (hence its name) instead of being horn-colored, and a longer, more spatulate tail. The eastern capercaillie has a somewhat glossy bluish-black head and neck down to a metallic turquoise breast.
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 ...