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Definition of Ruffed grouse

Ruffed grouse
Ruffed Ruffed, a. Furnished with a ruff. Ruffed grouse (Zo["o]l.), a North American grouse (Bonasa umbellus) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also tippet grouse, partridge, birch partridge, pheasant, drummer, and white-flesher. ruffed lemur (Zo["o]l.), a species of lemur (lemur varius) having a conspicuous ruff on the sides of the head. Its color is varied with black and white. Called also ruffed maucaco.

Meaning of Ruffed grouse from wikipedia

- The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is a medium-sized grouse occurring in forests from the Appalachian Mountains across Canada to Alaska. It is the most...
- po****r game birds such as the red grouse and the ruffed grouse have benefited from habitat management. Most grouse species are listed by the IUCN as "least...
- may be confused with ruffed grouse but they have a dark tail with a pale band at the end (while the reverse is true in ruffed grouse) and they do not erect...
- (ruffed grouse) Tetrastes Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 (hazel grouse) Centrocercus Swainson, 1832 (sage-grouse) Dendragapus Elliot, 1864 (blue grouse) Tympanuchus...
- Pennsylvania never chose an official state bird, but did choose the ruffed grouse as the state game bird. Alaska, California, and South Dakota permit...
- grouse North Woods — ruffed grouse and American wood**** Intermountain West — chukar partridge, dusky grouse, huns, sage-grouse, sharp-tailed grouse,...
- that adult ruffed grouse were mainly taken. Barred owls are also known to take adult spruce grouse of about the same size as the ruffed grouse, as well...
- The sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus), also known as the sharptail or fire grouse, is a medium-sized prairie grouse. One of three species...
- with the hatchet, and eats whatever food he can find, from rabbits and ruffed grouse – which he nicknames “fool-birds” – to turtle eggs, fish and berries...
- 1829) (Oregon ruffed grouse) B. u. brunnescens Conover, 1935 (Vancouver ruffed grouse) B. u. togata (Linnaeus, 1766) (St. Lawrence ruffed grouse) B. u. mediana...