A male ruffed grouse drummed from its drumming log, a place where courtship rites play out. The drumming is an audible display performed for a hen or a competing male. (The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

While spring ruffed grouse drumming counts were up this year in northern Minnesota, a cold, wet spring and early summer may lead to fewer grouse chicks surviving and fewer grouse in the bag for ...

Question: I was walking in the woods recently, and I was startled by a bird taking off next to me. Was this a grouse or even a pheasant? Answer: If it was in the woods of central and northern ...

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 ...

BRAINERD — It wasn’t what I was hoping to find as I wandered my property on a cold January day. Atop the snow lay a pile of feathers, grouse feathers to be exact. I knew the remains were that of Ruff, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Mother’s Day just before dusk, I saw an amazing sight just outside my ...

BISMARCK — There a four grouse species in North Dakota, and three of them — sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse and greater prairie chickens — are in attendance on leks or dancing grounds this time of ...

The ruffed grouse, an iconic species of forest ecosystems, is the only remaining grouse species to call New Jersey its home. New Jersey once was home to another grouse species, the heath hen, but that ...

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 ...

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 ...