The ruffed grouse has been Pennsylvania's state bird since 1931.This brown, chicken-like bird gets its name from the black "ruffs" on the side of its neck.It was an important part of the food supply ...
Dr. John A. Crawford of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University is a leading researcher on ...
The U.S. Department of Interior has decided that the greater sage grouse, a peculiar and distinctly Western bird, does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act. In a statement, Interior ...
On a trail in the woods west of Hill City last week, a family of ruffed grouse burst into flight as an ATV crawled past. The birds - perhaps half a dozen of them - flushed in every direction as a bear ...
WASHINGTON— The Bureau of Land Management’s “Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning” was released today and lays out the agency’s intentions for 65 million acres of the bird’s habitat on public lands ...
ASKOV, Minn. — Bob Flach used to hunt grouse. Not anymore. That’ll happen when your prey becomes your buddy. “This amazes me,” Bob says as he cradles the ruffed grouse he named Lulu in his hands. “I ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has launched a new tool to identify prime ruffed grouse recovery areas for groups working to restore habitat for Pennsylvania’s state bird, which has experienced a ...
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 ...
It appears that spring has already arrived in much of the Hudson Valley region after a mild winter. I have had reports of forsythia in full bloom in Kingston as early as March 3. This is a full month ...
When Bill Hartline bought 50 acres of forested land outside Muncy, Pennsylvania, he was looking for a bit of solitude and a place to eventually build a new home in retirement. But during a camping ...
Alaskan hunter Reed Carlson says the rescued Labrador retriever he adopted from the pound has turned out to be a great bird ...
Black grouse have bred on the North York Moors for what is believed to be the first time in almost two centuries. One of the ...