Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed grouse, which in Maine are often referred to as partridge, can be ...

New Hampshire has two species of grouse. You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse; it lives in woodlands throughout the state. But there’s another grouse found in the Granite State that few ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resource is expanding its efforts to test ruffed grouse for west Nile virus this fall by making the sampling kits available to hunters across the state’s ruffed ...

It is one of the state's rarest critters, maybe the rarest non-migratory bird. Most people in the North Country have probably never even heard of a spruce grouse, more-the-less seen one, for its ...

Today is the first day of hunting season for ruffed grouse here in northern New York. For the rest of the state, it doesn’t start until Oct. 1. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is ...

Hybridization is relatively common in galliforms. In many cases, these hybrids are thought to arise through failures in species recognition, but there are no documented observations of this occurring ...

A poster child for the Northern Forest, the spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) is one of the rarest birds in Vermont. Not only does the species depend on a relatively small patch of lowland spruce ...

Every morning before dawn since late March, a small research crew has set out on foot through some of the most inhospitable terrain Beltrami Island State Forest has to offer. (Wes Bailey, Minnesota ...

Sep. 6—Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is a tricky business, at best, because the forest birds aren't readily visible along roadsides or open terrain most of the year. Instead, ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A four-year study into northern Minnesota’s little-known spruce grouse population has found the birds are still part of a genetically healthy, interconnected population that’s not yet ...

Study will track population dynamics of little-known species to see if forest fragmentation and climate change are pushing them out of Minnesota. A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do ...