Wednesday marked the opening of several hunting seasons in Wyoming. The season is now open for mountain grouse (blue and ruffed), mourning doves, squirrels, cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares. I ...

Sept. 8 - Two things are maddeningly axiomatic about the native bird commonly called blue grouse. Relatively abundant, they are the most underhunted and underharvested of Colorado's game fowl. A ...

Ruffed grouse are found around riparian areas and hardwood forests, while blue grouse favor evergreen forests and spruce grouse “are tied to lodgepole pine,” said Mick Cope, state game bird manager.

Two broods of wild blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus) were observed for a total of nearly 27 hours in 1962, each on two consecutive days, the first day in each case being cold and wet and ...

It's a curious phenomenon in the bird world. Blue grouse, seeming to lack all native intelligence, head uphill to the coldest, harshest part of their habitat when winter comes on. When most birds are ...

Sooty Grouse, Mountain Grouse, Dusky Grouse, Dusky Blue Grouse, Gray Grouse, Pine Grouse, Fool Hen and other local names Characteristics Average wt. 2-3 lb(.0-1.4 kg); Average length (bill to tail) 18 ...

Over 700 observations of blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) broods were made in three areas of Montana from 1957 to 1962. These observations indicated that broods used areas with specific types of ...