A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do often. The Minnesota DNR is collecting spruce grouse tail feathers from hunters this fall as part of a genetic study to see if grouse populations are ...

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 ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently reached the end of a multiyear, international effort to restore and stabilize the endangered spruce grouse population. DEC Wildlife ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A four-year study into northern Minnesota’s little-known spruce grouse population has found the birds are still part of a genetically healthy, interconnected population that’s not yet ...

Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests are being asked to voluntarily submit feather samples for a genetics research project. The project is being conducted by the Minnesota ...

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 ...

ADIRONDACKS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has completed the translocation of Spruce Grouse into the Adirondacks, officials announced on Monday. The ...

A male spruce grouse is seen in his new Adirondack environment. For more than a decade, state biologists in New York have captured wild spruce grouse in northern Maine and Canada, and relocated them ...

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 ...

Every morning before dawn since late March, a small research crew has set out on foot through some of the most inhospitable terrain Beltrami Island State Forest has to offer. (Wes Bailey, Minnesota ...

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 ...