Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed grouse, which in Maine are often referred to as partridge, can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today is the first day of hunting season for ruffed grouse here in northern New York. For the rest of the state, it doesn’t start until Oct. 1. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is ...

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 ...

After last year, Ted Dick could be excused for being gun shy about making predictions on ruffed grouse hunting this fall in Minnesota. The season for ruffed grouse, spruce grouse, sharp-tailed grouse ...

If there’s an underlying theme for Minnesota ruffed grouse hunters going into this year’s season opener, it’s this: Charlotte Roy, grouse research scientist for the Minnesota Department of Natural ...

A poster child for the Northern Forest, the spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) is one of the rarest birds in Vermont. Not only does the species depend on a relatively small patch of lowland spruce ...

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 ...