As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed ...

Did you ever wonder why Pennsylvania’s state bird can sometimes be overly friendly or slightly aggressive to humans? The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking for the public’s help to see why ruffed ...

ROME, N.Y. -- Deer hunter John Page is becoming an ardent bird watcher this fall due to a wild, but extremely friendly ruffed grouse. It all began during the opening week of the Northern Zone ...

Do you hear the call? It might be Ohio's wild turkey population, and you can help keep track of how many birds there are. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources asks Ohioans to report any wild ...

I had a poor season, which is not especially unusual for me, but the majority of the guys with whom I kibitz about grouse hunting did, too.

If upland game birds were ranked by the power of their takeoff, a ruffed grouse would be TNT. The word "explosive" invariably enters descriptions -- often as part of excuse-giving -- of birds that ...

A proposal is underway to create a new fund to improve Pennsylvania’s forest habitat to protect birds like the ruffed grouse. Sen. Greg Rothman, R-34, in Perry County and parts of Cumberland and ...

GRAND FORKS – It’s quite the spectacle. Every spring, male prairie grouse – prairie chickens and sharptails – gather on mating grounds called leks and put on elaborate displays in an effort to attract ...

Perhaps more than at any time in history, Minnesota ruffed grouse hunters don't know what to expect when they decamp to the woods on Saturday, opening day of the "ruffie" season. That's because in the ...

A proposal is underway to create a new fund to improve Pennsylvania’s forest habitat to protect birds like the ruffed grouse. Sen. Greg Rothman, R-34th Dist., in Perry County and parts of Cumberland ...

If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush. The explosion of feathers and wings and all thing bird both will startle you and, in a ...