Ruffed grouse hunting is a paradoxical pursuit. The bird itself is small and delicate; a single pellet is said to be enough to take one down. Yet ruffies are hard to hit in the thick brush they ...

Each spring a male ruffed grouse chooses a fallen log on the forest floor. There doesn’t seem to be any one type or size of log the birds choose. I’ve seen small logs, that are barely large ...

Pennsylvania has a state bird, state tree, state song and soon — thanks to some students — it could have an official state ...

Ruffed grouse are also notoriously wild birds that are difficult to study. For the record, we have been here before. As the forests and lands were cleared at the turn of the previous century ...

The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), a.k.a. Timberdoodle, is a migratory game bird in the shorebird family Scolopacidae.

From singing American robins to the rat-a-tats of various objects by woodpeckers, to trumpeting trumpeter swans and much more ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation organizations submitted comments today blasting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s draft amendment for 77 land-use plans across the western United States intended to protect ...