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Tetrao is a genus of birds in the grouse subfamily known as capercaillies. They are some of the largest living grouse. They are some of the largest living grouse. Feathers from the bird were used to create the characteristic hat of the bersaglieri , an Italian ace infantry formation.
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 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.
Rare Bird Yearbook 2008: The World’s most Threatened Birds. MagDig Media. p. 139. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). (1979). Cantabrian capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus). Compiled by W.B. King on behalf of the International Council for Bird Preservation and the Survival Service Commission of ...
The black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family. The nominate race breeds in Iberian Peninsula , Northwest Africa, the Canary Islands, Turkey, Iran, Cyprus and Israel. The eastern form P. o. arenarius (Pallas, 1775) is found in Kazakhstan, western China and northern Pakistan.
One of the fun facts about British shorthair cats is that they were used to breed American shorthair cats. The first record of breeding was in 1904. The first record of breeding was in 1904. 11.
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]
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.