Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While visiting Olympic National Park, we were stopped near the Elwha River and a ruffed grouse sauntered up to us, seemingly odd behavior. The bird's weird actions continued as it came up to our boots ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring drumming counts were significantly lower than last year across most of their range, according to a report released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.