A male grouse "drums" or beats its wings on its chest to attract a mate in spring. This year's drumming count across the ruffed grouse range in Minnesota was the highest since 1972, but a wet June may ...

DULUTH — A warm and dry summer may not have been the best thing for your scorched-brown lawn, but it was probably great news for little ruffed grouse chicks and the people who like to hunt them when ...

Apr. 8—GRAND FORKS — It's quite the spectacle. Every spring, male prairie grouse — prairie chickens and sharptails — gather on mating grounds called leks and put on elaborate displays in an effort to ...

Like in 2022, spring drumming counts are up for the state's ruffed grouse spring population in its core range in northern Minnesota, according to the Department of Natural Resources. In a news release ...

A warm and dry summer may not have been the best thing for your scorched-brown lawn, but it was probably great news for little ruffed grouse chicks and the people who like to hunt them when they get ...

The Minnesota DNR's spring drumming counts showed a statewide increase in drums-per-stop from 1.3 in 2021, to 1.9 in 2022. The increase was unexpected because grouse are in the dwindling stage of the ...

Jul. 22—The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' latest ruffed grouse counts found Minnesota's spring 2025 population is lower statewide than last year. Ruffed grouse drums per stop were 1.8 ...

BOTTINEAU, N.D. -- Things like this are just not supposed to happen. The sighting of a ruffed grouse nest is so rare that biologists, even when searching for ruffed grouse fitted with radio tracking ...

It has been 91 years since the Pennsylvania State Legislature designated the ruffed grouse as the state bird – June 22, 1931, to be exact. Today, the grouse population in the state is miniscule ...

Ruffed grouse populations in Wisconsin have dropped slightly again this spring as the population heads for the bottom of its boom-to-bust cycle. Wisconsin's roadside grouse survey showed a 1 percent ...