Gallinaceous refers to chicken-like birds, including both grouse and wild turkey. “The spruce grouse seems almost tame, unconcerned when it encounters people,” says Something Wild co-host ...

Gallinaceous refers to chicken-like birds, including both grouse and wild turkey. “The spruce grouse seems almost tame, unconcerned when it encounters people,” says Something Wild co-host ...

Stiteler had all but admitted defeat looking for the spruce grouse. It was only when she started ... In theory, fledgling bird-watchers don’t need anything but their eyes and ears to take ...

Petersen also conducts wildlife surveys (one of her favorites is the spring spruce grouse survey that involves, you guessed it, counting turds) to keep track of furbearers, birds and even small ...

three resident “upland birds” — grouse that occupy forest and grassland habitats — put on quite a show in the spring. Sharp-tail grouse dance to celebrate, ruffed grouse drum, and spruce ...

Ruffed grouse hunters in the Northern Zone should positively identify their bird before shooting because the spruce grouse also makes its home in Wildlife Management Units 5C, 5F, 6F, and 6J.

Then came heavy rains in June that likely pummeled production for the ground-nesting birds. Minnesota's season for ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, spruce grouse and Hungarian partridges opens ...