This year, 52 observers from across Minnesota’s ruffed grouse range – all wildlife and natural resources professionals – provided brood count data. Its wings a blur, a male ruffed grouse drums in ...

ST. PAUL – Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring population counts are up from last year, which was not expected during the current declining phase of the 10-year cycle – a pattern recorded for 72 years.

BRAINERD — It wasn’t what I was hoping to find as I wandered my property on a cold January day. Atop the snow lay a pile of feathers, grouse feathers to be exact. I knew the remains were that of Ruff, ...

More grouse and turkey were heard during spring surveys this year than during recent seasons, according to Gary Norman, a Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologist. “Hopefully the weather will ...

PINEDALE — Two 8th-grade students advanced greater sage grouse science this spring by making dummy strutting males to lure birds from a nearby drilling rig so they could better hear mating calls.

Wyoming’s Sage Grouse Implementation Team will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Natrona County Fairgrounds. The team will hear reports from the Douglas core area reclamation group, ...

The sun rose in brilliant hues of orange and purple on the horizon, creeping slowly higher behind a distant herd of antelope. It illuminated the animals' dark silhouettes, which each jumped up one by ...

John Stephenson didn’t need a telescoping lens, or a notepad, to count how many sage grouse were flirting near a dirt-covered, melting pile of snow at the north end of Jackson Hole Airport’s runway.

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse hunting — widely considered the best in the nation — appears to be holding up this fall despite signs of natural population decline for the state’s most popular game bird.