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Bookmark or Share- Grouse Bird Facts | Tetraoninae - A-Z AnimalsGrouse are medium-sized, stocky birds that live in the Northern Hemisphere. Their feathers closely resemble their habitat. This plumage provides them with camouflage and helps them survive. Grouse are birds that are closely related to chickens, turkeys, and pheasants.
- Ruffed Grouse Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of OrnithologyThe dappled, grayish or reddish Ruffed Grouse is hard to see, but its “drumming on air” display is a fixture of many spring forests. It can come as a surprise to learn this distant sound, like an engine trying to start, comes from a bird at all. This plump grouse has a cocky crest and a tail marked by a broad, dark band near the tip.
- Ruffed Grouse | Audubon Field GuideArtists throughout history and across the U.S. have captured this bird in murals, books, and museum hangings. See what they’ve done: 16-19' (41-48 cm). A brown or gray-brown, chicken-like bird with slight crest, fan-shaped, black-banded tail, barred flanks, and black 'ruffs' on sides of neck.
- Ruffed Grouse Identification - All About BirdsThe dappled, grayish or reddish Ruffed Grouse is hard to see, but its “drumming on air” display is a fixture of many spring forests. It can come as a surprise to learn this distant sound, like an engine trying to start, comes from a bird at all. This plump grouse has a cocky crest and a tail marked by a broad, dark band near the tip.
- Grouse | Bird Species, Habitat & Diet | BritannicaGrouse, any of a number of game birds in the family Tetraonidae (order Galliformes). In addition to species called grouse, the group includes several birds known by particular names, such as the capercaillie and prairie chicken (see below) and the ptarmigan.
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