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At least a few times each year people in the forests of Pennsylvania encounter what they universally describe as a tame or friendly, ruffed grouse. The grouse - the state bird of Pennsylvania - is ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EAGLE COUNTY — How it is that the lark bunting came to be the Colorado state bird is anyone’s guess. The sparrow, and a fall migrator at that, is hardly ...

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 ...

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 ...