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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matt Brinkman knew something was off as soon as he pulled the wing and tail out of the brown paper bag. The bag was dated Sept. 18. A grouse hunter had dropped it into a Washington Department of Fish ...

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 ...

This Week Outdoors: With the largest numbers of hunters of the year out in the forests of Pennsylvania this week and next - for bear and deer hunting seasons - expect to spot large mammals, such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was out walking along a trail in the woods after a recent snow looking for animal tracks. Tracking is a great way to find out who exactly is living in your neighborhood; all that wildlife we might ...

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 ...

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 ...