ST. PAUL -- Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests can help with a genetics research project being conducted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in partnership with ...

Study will track population dynamics of little-known species to see if forest fragmentation and climate change are pushing them out of Minnesota. A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do ...

DULUTH, Minn.-The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow, spruce grouse poop in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- In November, an intrepid local hiker blundered into spruce grouse along the Tieton River in the Cascades west of Yakima. Other Yakima-area birders followed in his footsteps and were ...

Perched on a bough along the trail, the spruce hen did what spruce hens do best. She remained stone-still, allowing her cryptic camouflage to blend in with the mottled sunlight pecking through the ...

New Hampshire has two species of grouse. You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse; it lives in woodlands throughout the state. But there’s another grouse found in the Granite State that few ...

DULUTH, Minn.-The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow, spruce grouse poop in ...

I grew up hunting grouse with my dad in the Upper Clark Fork River Valley. In those days, we hunted fool hens and blue grouse. I rarely hear the term fool hen today. The name comes from the fact that ...

Cory Smith and Jen Jolliff posted red course victories in Wednesday night's Arctic Orienteering Club race at Service High School, with the added challenge of a protective spruce hen. The field of ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow. The spruce grouse may be the Rodney ...