A cousin who grew up in the Twin Cities but spent a lot of time in rural Roseau County of northwest Minnesota – where he still visits at every opportunity – called the other day asking me to ...

Taxonomically they are one and the same, but if a bird flushes wildly it’s called a grouse; and if it stays on the ground and wanders off on foot it’s a partridge. The ruffed grouse was the ...

where the "partridge" seemed to be just about everywhere, the best grouse hunting season in years, maybe the best in decades by some accounts. Mike Amman's setter, Elwah, and a limit of ruffed ...

Santa Claus may get all the credit for coming to town this time of year, but Julie Bauer is more excited about the Lincoln’s sparrow landing in Haines Junction this holiday season. “I believe ...

Saturday is the season-opener for hunting of sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse in North Dakota. Shooting hours are half an hour before sunrise to sunset. Sharptails ...

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 ...

They have short legs and often are slimmer than other grouse species. These are also sometimes called the partridge. The ruffed grouse is usually patterned with dark bars and spots on a reddish ...

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 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 ...