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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am fascinated by the diversity of mother nature. And this was abundantly clear to me the other day while I sat in a tiny chair blind, in the dark, waiting for the sun to come up and for a ruffed ...

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 ...