Anyone who’s ever hunted ruffed grouse knows how elusive and evasive this flighty upland game bird can be. These are birds that automatically take flight at the slightest whiff of hunters and their ...

Question: I was walking in the woods recently, and I was startled by a bird taking off next to me. Was this a grouse or even a pheasant? Answer: If it was in the woods of central and northern ...

BRAINERD — It wasn’t what I was hoping to find as I wandered my property on a cold January day. Atop the snow lay a pile of feathers, grouse feathers to be exact. I knew the remains were that of Ruff, ...

Winter arrived early this year, and unlike such occasions in the past decade, she has decided to stay. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing since Thanksgiving, and it has actually ...

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 ...

Anyone who’s ever hunted ruffed grouse knows how elusive and evasive this flighty upland game bird can be. These are birds that automatically take flight at the slightest whiff of hunters and their ...