Each species practices some kind of elaborate ... and was waiting for another amazing grouse, the ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). The ruffed grouse is a medium-sized grouse that lives in forested ...

and others theorize that the birds are a genetic throwback to old pre-settlement genetics of the species. “If you read the settler accounts, ruffed grouse was a much more docile, calmer bird ...

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided not to place the bird on the Endangered Species List. But in 2019, the government allowed drilling on nine million acres of crucial sage grouse habitat ...