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 ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union split the species known as the blue grouse into two species -- dusky and sooty grouse. Washington is the only state where the ranges of these two very ...

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 ...

When Bill Hartline bought 50 acres of forested land outside Muncy, Pennsylvania, he was looking for a bit of solitude and a place to eventually build a new home in retirement. But during a camping ...

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 ...