SOUTH NEWFANE When I am out birdwatching, I see ruffed grouse fairly often, but I have rarely watched a ruffed grouse, the way I might watch a chickadee as it moves from branch to branch or tree to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Felton of Kimbolton, Ohio, recently sent me some photos of a ruffed grouse he had been feeding twice a day since late November. He first noticed the grouse while walking with his grandson. Not ...

The annual tally of ruffed grouse drumming across northern Minnesota was unchanged this year from last year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported Monday. The statewide average count ...

An annual survey detected less drumming by ruffed grouse in Wisconsin this spring, the latest indication the species has entered a lower stage of its population cycle, according to Department of ...

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 ...

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring population counts are up from last year, which was not expected during the current declining phase of the 10-year cycle – a pattern recorded for 72 years. “While ...

Despite decades of decline, a genetic analysis of ruffed grouse reveals that Pennsylvania’s state bird harbors more genetic diversity and connectivity than expected. The findings suggest that the ...