Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed grouse, which in Maine are often referred to as partridge, can ...

Spruce grouse don't really drum, like male ruffed grouse in spring, so there's been no way to check if their numbers are going up or down, or even where in Minnesota they live, simply by listening ...

New Hampshire has two species of grouse. You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse; it lives in woodlands throughout the state. But there’s another grouse found in the Granite State that ...

Hunting season for ruffed grouse starts today in northern New York. The DEC is cautioning hunters to double check they're not targeting the endangered spruce grouse.

Some hunters pursue them but most are taken incidentally by ruffed grouse hunters. Nicknames: Spruce hen, fool's hen, fool's grouse because they often are not wary of people and don’t fly when ...

Spruce grouse ultimately benefited from an outbreak of spruce budworms in New Hampshire that ended in 1983. Spruce budworms are the larvae of a native moth that tend to recur in a 40 year cycle.

Minnesota’s season for ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, spruce grouse and Hungarian partridges opens Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (Courtesy of North Dakota Game and Fish Department) ...

Near day’s end, I followed my overeager setter through a band of trees, between a recent clearcut and willow swamp.

And look for this telltale sign: the chestnut brown tip of the tail on both male and female spruce grouse. Otherwise, the females might be mistaken for a ruffed grouse, but overall they're a much ...

On a recent trip to Bogus Basin to escape the heat and check in on the still active mountain bird community, I was attacked by a ruffed grouse. I was driving slowly on the dirt road to Mores ...

Minnesota's season for ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, spruce grouse and Hungarian partridges opens Saturday, Sept. 14. After a banner season last fall, optimism was high, and strong spring ...