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 ...

A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do often. The Minnesota DNR is collecting spruce grouse tail feathers from hunters this fall as part of a genetic study to see if grouse populations are ...

Spruce grouse are among my favorite birds. I know this is silly, but I have actually formed long-term relationships with a few of them. Two males annually set up adjacent territories along one of my ...

ALBANY -- Genetic analysis at the state museum confirms what biologists squishing through Adirondack bogs already knew: New York's population of the spruce grouse, a chickenlike bird of the boreal ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A four-year study into northern Minnesota’s little-known spruce grouse population has found the birds are still part of a genetically healthy, interconnected population that’s not yet ...

Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests are being asked to voluntarily submit feather samples for a genetics research project. The project is being conducted by the Minnesota ...

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 ...

It is one of the state's rarest critters, maybe the rarest non-migratory bird. Most people in the North Country have probably never even heard of a spruce grouse, more-the-less seen one, for its ...

A male spruce grouse is seen in his new Adirondack environment. For more than a decade, state biologists in New York have captured wild spruce grouse in northern Maine and Canada, and relocated them ...