The ruffed grouse has been Pennsylvania's state bird ... whir.Males also fight and display for females. Displaying males fan their tails, raise their ruffs to encircle their heads, then hiss ...

These birds have a short crest and a long, fan-shaped tail. They have short legs and often are slimmer than other grouse species. These are also sometimes called the partridge. The ruffed grouse ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking for the public’s help to see why ruffed grouse, a wild animal, sometimes let their guard down and spend time around humans. The birds are normally ...

While there are arguments about each of those topics, there’s one thing that upland hunters can all agree on, ruffed grouse have earned their title of ‘King of the Woods’. Until recently, I hadn’t ...

Though a surprise, the thunderous, rapid wingbeats of a flushing ruffed grouse were exactly what we hoped to hear. They were answered with simultaneous shouts of "bird!" from my hunting companions ...

You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse ... rustling sound like sandpaper rubbing when the male fans his tail-feathers. Spruce grouse have striking plumage, especially the males ...

I have fond memories of creating an artificial ruffed grouse drumming log on my property. I was hoping the fake log would attract a romantic male grouse, and would become the stage for his unusual ...

A male grouse "drums" or beats its wings on its chest to attract a mate in spring. This year's drumming count across the ruffed grouse range in Minnesota was the highest since 1972, but a wet June ...

This year, 52 observers from across Minnesota’s ruffed grouse range – all wildlife and natural resources professionals – provided brood count data. Its wings a blur, a male ruffed grouse ...

Ruffed grouse drumming increased this spring in two of three priority areas and the species appears to be on the upward phase of its traditional 10-year population cycle in Wisconsin, according to ...

The increase was unexpected because grouse are in the dwindling stage of the 10-year population cycle. Ruffed grouse drumming counts in Minnesota were up statewide from 1.3 drums per stop in 2021 ...