Ruffed Grouse Images

Ruffed Grouse Images, Facts and Information:

Bonasa umbellus

• Ruffed Grouse are medium sized grouse with crested heads and reddish or gray scaled upperparts. Their white underparts have pale reddish or gray bars on their breasts and dark reddish or gray bars on their bellies and flanks. Their tails is gray or reddish with fine white bars with a thick dark band at the tip. They have a black ruff on the sides of their necks. Northern forms of Ruffed Grouse are grayer.
• Ruffed Grouse are nonmigratory. Ruffed Grouse can be found in forests from the Appalachian Mountains across Canada to Alaska south to California, Wyoming, Utah, Minnesota, the Carolinas to Georgia. It is the most widely distributed game bird in North America.
• Ruffed Grouse feed on forbs, fruits, insects, the buds and catkins of aspens, birches, and cherries.
• Ruffed Grouse lays 8 to 14 eggs which hatch in 21 to 28 days. The females incubate and they are promiscuous.
• A group of grouse can be called a “chorus”, “covey”, “drumming”, “grumbling” and a “leash” of grouse.
• Ruffed Grouse can live to be at least 10 years of age.

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