Sentence examples for ruffed grouse from inspiring English sources
noun
An American game bird, Bonasa umbellus; the male makes drumming sounds with its wings
For example, American marten and ruffed grouse habitat are maintained by mutually exclusive activities.
Found ruffed grouse submerged in brook, except for head, to escape goshawk.
Spring peepers are calling, woodpeckers and ruffed grouse have been drumming, said Mr. Davis, the wildlife biologist.
In addition to slowing and filtering runoff that flows into drinking water supplies below, the ponds are magnets for frogs, salamanders, ruffed grouse, turkey, and woodcock.
Neighbors eager to hunt ruffed grouse, deer, snowshoe hares, and other species actually convinced GFW and the Forest Service to create early successional habitat, so the sole focus wasn't on red spruce.
Like many similar forest species, ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus; hereafter grouse) populations in the central and southern Appalachians (CSA) are strongly affected by forest composition at the landscape scale.
Males of the North American ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) and those of some phasianids, the peacock pheasant (Polyplectron) and argus pheasant being examples, live in isolation, displaying to and copulating with any receptive female.
Otherwise, your companions will be whitetail deer, cottontail rabbits, ruffed grouse and constant hills.
Northern hardwood trees and ruffed grouse live in the surrounding area.
Whereas most game birds take off like a helicopter flying straight up at first, then horizontally ruffed grouse move like a jet plane with a busted rudder.
