When a male ruffed grouse is looking for some action, he doesn't put on a Barry White record while having some Courvoisier.

I’ve come to appreciate ruffed grouse more than any other bird, and its “shapeshifter” ability is a prime reason why. A male ruffed grouse is strutting in a declaration of self-importance. With tail ...

A brown, chicken-like bird with a fan-shaped black-banded tail and black "ruffs" on the sides of the neck. Of course, I write of the ruffed grouse, a permanent resident throughout the deep woods of ...

The hunting season for New Hampshire’s most sought-after upland game bird starts Saturday.Ruffed grouse season runs through Dec. 31.Karen Bordeau, New Hampshire Fish and Game’s small game project ...

This year, 52 observers from across Minnesota’s ruffed grouse range – all wildlife and natural resources professionals – provided brood count data. Its wings a blur, a male ruffed grouse drums in ...

Upland game bird hunting season is underway, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has a special request for hunters. ODFW conducts annual harvest surveys to understand which areas of the ...

If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush. The explosion of feathers and wings and all thing bird both will startle you and, in a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Wildlife used to be abundant here in the hollow. Unfortunately in recent ...

HUNTING – Hunters can help state wildlife biologists monitor forest grouse populations by depositing the wings and tails of birds they harvest this season in collection barrels. Washington Fish and ...

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 ...

Wayne Shade, of Carlisle, recently shared some photos of a ruffed grouse, normally a very wild and human-wary bird, interacting closely with humans. Understandably, he did not want to disclose the ...

As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...