Spruce grouse use feather sounds during courtship and perform a complex mating dance where they swish their tails from side to side while walking and end the display with a simultaneous flick of the ...

May was a mere seven hours old and a veil of fog hugged the ground. But even in the dim early light, it was clear spring had fully sprung in the North Woods. This encounter occurred in Wisconsin, but ...

DULUTH, Minn.-The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow, spruce grouse poop in ...

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 few ...

Study will track population dynamics of little-known species to see if forest fragmentation and climate change are pushing them out of Minnesota. A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do ...

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 few ...

Every morning before dawn since late March, a small research crew has set out on foot through some of the most inhospitable terrain Beltrami Island State Forest has to offer. (Wes Bailey, Minnesota ...

The following story was written by the Associated Press: Genetic analysis at the state museum confirms what biologists squishing through Adirondack bogs already knew: New York's population of the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- In November, an intrepid local hiker blundered into spruce grouse along the Tieton River in the Cascades west of Yakima. Other Yakima-area birders followed in his footsteps and were ...

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 few ...

Ruffed grouse drumming counts were down this spring across Minnesota, but wildlife managers are cautiously optimistic that a dry spring and favorable breeding conditions will offset the difference.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow. The spruce grouse may be the Rodney ...