Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and other medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk. |
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl. |
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Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys. |
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Bumblebees hugged the ground, water spiders skitted on temporary ponds, rivulets gushed from the moors and grouse kept an educated distance. |
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A government Minister has weighed into the controversy over alleged breaches of foot and mouth rules at a North Yorkshire grouse shoot. |
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Whole roast grouse may still come with game chips and bread sauce but there is game jus rather than over-thickened gravy. |
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These trees will help to provide shelter and food for birds including the rare black grouse. |
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In Scottish winters, while the rest of the country yearns for sun, the keepers on grouse moors pray for a deep, deep frost. |
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Wild birds that might be acceptable alternatives for William include woodcock, wood pigeon, partridge and grouse. |
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Apart from the grouse and the woodcock which gives the hill its name, it's a very important habitat for the hen harrier, which is very rare. |
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse. |
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The black grouse needs a more varied habitat than the better-established red grouse. |
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The problem is that numbers of red grouse are in freefall, continuing a downward trend witnessed over the past 20 years or more. |
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Fine weather throughout the spring and early summer has produced encouraging numbers of red grouse for the start of the season on Tuesday. |
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Marsden Moor supports large numbers of moorland birds such as the golden plover, red grouse, curlew and the diminutive twite. |
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Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover. |
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The cats can and do eat red squirrels, ground squirrels, and grouse, but an abundance of hares is lynx heaven. |
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Periodically, fights broke out between the males as they competed for the coveted role of alpha grouse. |
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse? |
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Actual shooting over grouse moors occurs on very few days per season and not at weekends or on public holidays. |
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In the first, the applicant S took part in a protest against a grouse shoot. |
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Grimond was adopted as candidate for Orkney and Shetland, having only seen the cliffs of Hoy while in Caithness on a grouse shoot. |
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The Lords and ladies would be put up at the Devonshire Arms Hotel at Bolton Abbey before the pheasant and grouse shoots. |
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It's even more excessive than a bunch of City investment bankers on a grouse shoot. |
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The game shoots of the area supply plenty of pheasant in season, but other game, such as grouse, has suffered due to a succession of wet winters. |
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The association says grouse shooting conserves both the birds and the heather. |
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There also is fishing available in local lochs, and stalking or grouse shooting on neighbouring estates. |
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Similarly I can recall seeing blackcock, grouse, ring ousel and merlin on Exmoor until the mid sixties. |
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During April and May the weather was dry and warm when the red grouse lay their eggs. |
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Most of the estates include salmon and trout fishing rights, grouse moors and deer stalking grounds as well as rambling lodges and outbuildings. |
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And the Poconos' deciduous forests harbor a wealth of birds, ranging from the scarlet tanager to the ruffed grouse. |
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As food, wild turkeys eat its roots, and ruffed grouse, mourning doves, bobwhite, turkeys and juncos devour its seeds. |
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Photuris pennsylvanica officially took its place alongside the whitetail deer, ruffed grouse, and Great Dane as official state symbols. |
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In addition, Cranberry Glades is home to white-tailed deer, beaver, and black bear, as well as ruffed grouse and great blue herons. |
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Be on the lookout for woodcocks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, beavers, otters, ruffed grouse, and muskrat. |
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His experienced ears have picked up the faint, deep, drumming sound of a ruffed grouse. |
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We ski stealthily up to a herd of deer or pass a ruffed grouse on the trail while gliding along. |
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He believes his sage grouse populations are healthier than those on two nearby National Wildlife Refuges. |
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The unprecedented state and local effort that has gone into preserving the sage grouse should provide a template for future conservation efforts. |
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The Federation successfully sued BLM for failing to write a resource management plan for its sage grouse lands in southwestern Montana. |
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These actions will also benefit pygmy rabbits and sage grouse that use the area as rearing habitat. |
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Native grasses support cattle grazing and provide forage and shelter for native wild animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse. |
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It's also essential habitat for the imperiled sage grouse, mountain plover and black-tailed prairie dog. |
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The explorers introduced to science Clark's nutcracker and Lewis's woodpecker, as well as the sage grouse and the lesser Canada goose. |
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In 2002, Jerry was surprised to see several sage grouse on the northern part of the ranch. |
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The agency administers several million acres of sage grouse habitat across 11 western states. |
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The group is currently working on a range of controversial issues, including habitat protection for the sage grouse. |
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It is also one of the last strongholds of the charismatic sage grouse, which has declined throughout the West. |
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Although some hotels and luxury food stores compete to serve the first grouse of the season, many of the birds go to overseas markets. |
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Still, there is no planned environmental assessment of the proposed burn area, and the endangered sage grouse is still at risk. |
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Also there are various generations of grouse butts, the latest new, semi-subterranean, wood-lined, gravel-floored and drained by plastic pipe. |
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After passing a canary-yellow barn, we crossed a small moor with three-star grouse butts and ended up at the hamlet of Ilton. |
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After second cross path dips just east of north and heads towards wooden and stone grouse butts. |
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Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly. |
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In terms of conventional physics, the grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre. |
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We passed the most wonderfully invisible grouse butts buried in bilberries and discussed when the heather would be at its best. |
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The black grouse has been in decline across Britain largely because of sheep eating the heather and bilberries they depend on. |
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We have some exceptionally rare birds there, like hen harriers, black grouse, and we are setting up an osprey platform. |
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All he succeeded in shooting was a single black grouse, perched singing on a tree branch. |
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Meanwhile, ministry vets have given the go-ahead for grouse shooting to start at the beginning of the season on August 12, the Glorious Twelfth. |
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The two mares raced through underbrush, scaring up grouse, rabbit, and a flock of pheasant. |
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Roast grouse with poached plums was just drowned in jam and the chicken was stuffed not with salmon this time, but foie gras. |
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I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season. |
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The Game Warden suggests close seasons for a few years would be most helpful in increasing the stand of grouse. |
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It was claimed that before they were really ready for cooking, grouse should be hung until maggots dropped out of them. |
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Eight individuals of hazel grouse were captured and they were marked with a transmitter. |
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Twenty-six hazel grouse were radio-tracked and he got good results on their winter social behaviour. |
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Perfect for picnics or shooting parties, or as dessert after roasted grouse or casseroled game. |
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The average well-bred field setter can stylishly handle grouse and woodcock, and other upland game birds as well. |
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The steady stream of hinds coming off the hill and the occasional brace of grouse, all make it onto the restaurant's table. |
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House sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and blue grouse dine on mistletoe berries, while porcupines devour whatever plant parts they can reach. |
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Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards. |
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Increasing numbers of ticks have cut a swath through the young grouse populations. |
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As in other grouse species, red grouse combs are larger and brighter in males, and their size is testosterone-dependent. |
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But managing the moors for the grouse also preserves them for the plovers and Merlin. |
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Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails. |
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Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail. |
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If you hunt upland game birds within the range of sage grouse, be sure your target is not a sage grouse. |
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Small eggs may jeopardize survival for precocial grouse chicks that rely extensively on nutrient stores after hatching. |
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Holyrood palace is teeming with life, and the dashed thing about it is that the grouse season hasn't even opened yet. |
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Use this to deglaze the roasting pan that you've cooked the grouse in, reducing it a bit more. |
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Sage grouse depend on healthy sage grasslands, especially dense stands of brush, for shelter and protection. |
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Willow ptarmigan, rock ptarmigan and spruce grouse are a few of the ground-dwelling birds. |
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The black grouse is Scotland's second-most endangered bird after centuries of habitat destruction and hunting. |
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Business as usual is what has driven the greater sage grouse to its precarious brink. |
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Between you and me, I had too much grouse and red wine last night and mackerel is very good for lowering cholesterol. |
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The breast of grouse was slightly overdone and a bit dry, but had the intriguingly complex flavours of wild moorland feeding. |
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Typically, customers do grouse, but in the aggregate, they've not rebelled and over time have come to accept the practice as fully entrenched. |
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I've groused about this before and will probably grouse again in the future. |
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How terribly twisted must one's mind become to lead one to kill another human being in cold blood after nursing some grouse over turf or money? |
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Their grouse is that other south Indian language films are sound both technically and visually as they have film cities of their own. |
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Their main grouse was the 0.15 per cent securities transaction tax on share transactions. |
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Civil war was the winner on the day and I hope youse all have a grouse night. |
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An army of beaters will drive the birds into the skies, tacking across the hillside, flushing the grouse out of their cover and into the air for the waiting guns. |
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The grouse of aged visitors to the Eco Park against the Corporation is that it has not taken any steps to develop the three-acre area on its southern side. |
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Here's a romantic view of a grouse shoot on Beamsley Beacon by Turner. |
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Did you know that Pennsylvania's state bird is the ruffed grouse? |
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Grouse numbers are up by 25 per cent on last year and conditions have been ideal for other rare moorland game birds, such as the black grouse and grey partridge. |
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Wood pigeon, pheasant, partridge, grouse, peacocks, hares, wild rabbits, and waterfowl are all dietary staples. |
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Robins, hummingbirds, catbirds, thrushes and even a grouse or two, usually not attracted by seed feeders, are drawn to this water in our backyard garden. |
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In a productive grouse year, around 350,000 of the birds are potted by shooting parties in the UK, mostly in Scotland, during the August to November season. |
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Professional beaters will be called in by Bradford Council to drive birds on to privately-owned adjoining moors where grouse shoots still take place. |
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The grouse population has traditionally been prone to yearly fluctuations, but global warming is being blamed in some quarters for a sustained slump in numbers. |
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Tracks of squirrel, weasel, coyote, rabbit, ruffed grouse, and mice are common, says Alison Adams, who runs snowshoe hikes in Harbor Springs, Michigan. |
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Tens of thousands of the game birds will be shot over the next few weeks as the Scottish grouse shooting season gets under way on the traditional Glorious Twelfth of August. |
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Red grouse is the most popular game bird in Scotland, where hunting on the large estates is both a cherished sport and one of great economic importance. |
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A haven of small islands and bars of land looking out towards the sea, the place is a paradise for birdwatchers harbouring geese, eider duck, grouse and eagle. |
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For a decade landowners and gamekeepers have been fighting for licenses to kill birds of prey in order to preserve grouse and pheasants for shooting. |
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As well as grouse watching, Dan and his colleagues also give informal tours around the reserve for young ornithologists keen to spot merlins, buzzards and ospreys. |
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Do not expect to feel up to a little grouse shooting when you disembark. |
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Like grouse shooters, fox hunters, lampers, hare coursers, badger baiters and of course meat eaters, anglers do what they do simply because they enjoy doing it. |
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There is a grouse plucking scene in the kitchen, in which the cook and two scullery maids are tearing at the birds as if they have lost their minds. |
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Commercial snapper crews grouse also about offshore shrimpers, although not quite so vocally, and feel that sport fishermen may get too large a share. |
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Some Republicans will grouse at the new data because it makes their economic-incompetence argument harder to make. |
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Some birds, including game species such as pheasant and prairie grouse and non-game species such as songbirds, prefer open grassland to woody cover. |
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Streams and standing winter water are pretty, grouse butts are everywhere, and with three sweeps of its scimitar wings a raptor slid into the next valley. |
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Further south are vast forests where hazel grouse and capercaillie occur. |
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This will create age structure in the heather, improve habitat for grouse and allow us to see if there are any drainage channels taking water away from the raised mire. |
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These include such species as black grouse and curlew, which are associated with upland areas, as well as the song thrush, spotted flycatcher and linnet. |
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The sage grouse, a bird native to the Great Plains and western United States, has seen a dramatic 90 percent decline in population over the past two decades. |
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Similarly, prairie chicken, sage grouse, and prairie elk will gain critical habitat when we establish bison and prairie dog reserves in the national grasslands. |
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At the Buccleuch estate in Nithsdale a dearth of grouse forced yesterday's traditional start of the season shoot to be cancelled and rearranged for later this month. |
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Gamekeepers are legally able to kill animals such as foxes that feed on grouse, but they cannot disturb or kill protected species such as goshawks. |
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However, the main grouse of these publishers is that they do not get much by way of advertisement support from corporates, which prefer the English publications. |
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Wildlife is plentiful, including jackrabbits, mule deer, elk, pheasant, sage grouse, barn owls, bald and golden eagles, and dozens of species of songbirds. |
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This was followed by breast of hazel grouse with Madeira sauce. |
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One day it would be noodles with garlic-butter sauce and a glass of pomegranate juice, the next it would be roasted grouse, bread, and a mug of sweetened milk. |
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It lives mainly on carrion, but farmers and gamekeepers shot, trapped and poisoned the bird because they believed it might endanger breeding grouse. |
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Visitors to Grasslands National Park can witness the mating dance of the sage grouse or get a look at the sharp-tailed grouse, Saskatchewan's bird emblem. |
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That proper water supply has been ensured to four residential extensions which came up only recently, while things continue to ail in the old town limits is another grouse. |
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We take the lower ground between, past a line of grouse butts. |
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The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse. |
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits. |
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One or two of the dialogue scenes, in particular the one showing international war-profiteers enjoying a grouse shoot, have a dated, agitprop feel. |
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Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world. |
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After that, I had a sensational roast young grouse served medium-rare. |
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Shooters traditionally look forward to August 12, when they dust off their guns and head for the moors for the start of the grouse shooting season. |
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Sons Justin, 12, and Conor, 9, plan to spend most of the day fishing for trout, using their homemade poles and flies fashioned from chicken and sage grouse feathers. |
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. |
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They include pine marten, wildcat, stoat and weasel as well as golden eagles, merlin, peregrine falcon, golden plover and in time black grouse and capercaillie. |
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Snipes, curlews, redshanks, lapwings and dunlins were also found to be more common on managed grouse moor. |
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To begin with, on a routine inspection, Joe discovers the wholesale slaughter of 21 sage grouse in a breeding area. |
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Concerned about the spotted owl and sage grouse or the purity and availability of water, woods, and open spaces? |
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Russell National Wildlife Refuge around Fort Peck Reservoir, which is home to sharptails and sage grouse. |
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We also added ring-necked doves, black-faced sand grouse and yellow-necked spurfowl to our bags. |
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The Capercaillie, also known as the Wood Grouse, is the largest member of the grouse family and is renowned for its mating display. |
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It's the Glorious Twelfth, the day the shootin' starts, so the royals will be out on the moors giving grief to the grouse. |
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Go to a London dinner party on a Saturday night and the welcome chat will be about where the grouse and greengages came from. |
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Between deer hunts, we'd dropped plenty of Hungarian partridge and sharptail grouse for Rocky, my yellow Lab, to retrieve. |
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Early fall found me pursuing waterfowl and sharptail grouse in Watrous, Saskatchewan. |
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Birdlife on the moors includes such rare species as golden plovers, dunlins, twites, ring ouzels, red grouse and curlews. |
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Britain's first Hen Harrier Day will be held in the Derbyshire Peak District, a day before the annual grouse shooting seasons begins on Tuesday. |
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Hen harriers are protected by law but campaigners say they are persecuted by rogue gamekeepers because they feed on grouse. |
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The populations of sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chickens soared with new, high-protein cereal grains as food. |
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I went specifically to hunt ducks, but the island harbors geese, and in the uplands, a shotgunner can find Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse. |
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Show me a dog who can consistently work Hungarian partridge or point every ruffed grouse he comes across and I'll buy him. |
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And in Idaho's Hell's Canyon it's possible to flush chukars, gray partridge, California quail, ruffed and blue grouse. |
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Large areas of heather moorland in the Pennines are managed for driven shooting of wild red grouse. |
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The related and declining black grouse is still found in northern parts of the Pennines. |
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Large birds are declining in number, except for those kept for game such as pheasant, partridge, and red grouse. |
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The uplands support black and red grouse, mountain hares, raptors such as golden eagles and hen harriers, and some unusual plant species. |
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The genus name is derived from the Latin name of a game bird, probably the black grouse. |
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In the United Kingdom, however, hen harrier populations are in a critical condition, due to habitat loss and illegal killing on grouse moors. |
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In Central Europe, the diet in winter months is dominated by birds including quail, grey partridges, grouse, chickens, pigeons and passerines. |
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Ptarmigan, grouse, crow blackbirds, dove, ducks and other game fowl are consumed in the United States. |
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Dusky grouse Dendragapus obscurus perform altitudinal migration mostly by walking. |
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All grouse spend most of their time on the ground, though when alarmed, they may take off in a flurry and go into a long glide. |
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Male grouse display lekking behavior, which is when many males come together in one area and put on displays to attract females. |
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These differences in male behavior in mating systems account for the evolution of body size in grouse. |
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The seeds are commonly eaten by birds, such as grouse, crossbills, jays, nuthatches, siskins, woodpeckers, and by squirrels. |
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Bird species are represented by capercaillie, black grouse, hazel grouse, spotted nutcracker, and cuckoos. |
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It is popular because it provides a challenge due to the rapid flight of the grouse. |
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Shooting takes place on grouse moors, areas of moorland in northern England and Scotland. |
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There is a strict code of conduct governing behaviour on the grouse moor for both safety and etiquette. |
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Grouse shooting can also be undertaken by 'walking up' grouse over pointers, or by flushing the birds with other dogs. |
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To support a large population of grouse, gamekeepers employ heather burning techniques. |
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A burnt patch allows fresh shoots to come through which are ideal nutrition for grouse. |
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While the short new shoots provide food, the taller, older heather provides cover and shelter for the grouse. |
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Snares placed to trap foxes which prey on grouse pose a risk to walkers and runners if they are poorly marked. |
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Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers. |
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The red grouse is herbivorous and feeds mainly on the shoots, seeds and flowers of heather. |
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The flavour of grouse, like most game birds, develops if the bird is hung for a few days after shooting and before eating. |
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The red grouse is widely known as the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. |
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Because of their economic and social importance and some interesting aspects of their biology, red grouse have been widely studied. |
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There are a wide range of research activities still going on today and a wealth of published literature exists on all aspects of grouse biology. |
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The red grouse may be infected by parasites and viruses which severely affect populations. |
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In the United Kingdom black grouse are found in upland areas of Wales, the Pennines and most of Scotland. |
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Migrant birds like cursoirus cursor, gull, starling, blackbird, duck, waterhen and sand grouse. |
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It is a subspecies of the willow grouse, whose range extends across the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia and North America. |
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Responses by the capercaillie Tetrao urugallus, and the willow grouse Lagopus lagopus, to the green matter available in early spring. |
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This encourages the plants to produce nutritious new shoots to improve the grazing for sheep, deer, and, in particular, grouse. |
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Faecal egg counts provide a reliable measure of Trichostrongylus tenuis intensities in free-living red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus. |
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The Pholster can accommodate pheasants, chuckers and grouse, and is lightweight enough that several Pholsters can be worn at once. |
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Birds such as the turtle dove, cirl bunting, stone-curlew, black grouse, black-tailed godwit, twite and corncrake could be at risk. |
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If I lived out west, maybe I'd have a lankier dog, but in the grouse woods, you want a defensive back, not a lineman. |
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Endangered lapwing, curlew, golden plover, ring ouzel, merlin, black grouse and grey partridge all fare far better on moorland with gamekeepers. |
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Rare wildlife includes otters, red grouse, golden plovers, curlews, ring ouzels and peregrine falcons. |
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Though often considered the king of gamebirds, ruffed grouse don't wear the crown regally. |
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The distribution of ruffed grouse in Indiana has historically fluctuated with changing land use. |
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This paper updates the distribution and relative abundance of ruffed grouse in Ohio. |
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Woodcock and ruffed grouse, which means she knows a thing or two about upland birds and of course, the dogs used to hunt them. |
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In addition to benefiting deer, forest openings provide important food sources for wild turkey and ruffed grouse broods. |
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The blue and ruffed grouse season in eastern Oregon would also remain open through Jan. |
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Stick to music that has lots of harmony, and if you ever meet your mirror image, don't try to out-pick him and don't take him grouse hunting. It becomes dueling banjos. |
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In addition to well-established Eurasian birds such as Hungarian and chukar partridge and pheasants, we have ruffed, blue, spruce, sharptail and sage grouse. |
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Control of predators also doubled the numbers of meadow pipits which fledged and trebled the breeding success of red grouse, the Journal of Applied Ecology said. |
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It said the black grouse may become extinct within 20 years, the greater horsehoe bat would migrate north and the song thrush and common scoter suffer. |
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Then he moves on to discussing the chinquapin trees, or the mountain thrushes that should be back in about a month, or the ouzels or grouse or mountain beavers. |
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The females of the larger subspecies are capable of taking large and powerful game birds such as the largest of duck species, pheasant, and grouse. |
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In this way they can spread a number of diseases to humans, including Borreliosis, also known as Lyme disease, louping ill in grouse and tick fever in sheep. |
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In the United Kingdom, this takes the form of driven grouse shooting. |
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Pheasants were hunted in their natural range by Stone Age humans just like the grouse, partridges, junglefowls and perhaps peacocks that inhabited Europe at that time. |
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Hens were kept for both their meat and eggs, and the bones of game birds such as the black grouse, golden plover, wild ducks, and geese have also been found. |
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An exception to this perilous state is Ruabon moor, near Wrexham, which is home to healthy numbers of grouse and other upland species such as curlew and golden plover. |
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Black grouse and red grouse are now extinct on Exmoor, probably as a result of a reduction in habitat management, and for the former species, an increase in visitor pressure. |
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The active hunting season in Missouri for the native ruffed grouse was closed this year due to declining populations statewide, a call to action by sportsmen is now needed. |
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A male ruffed grouse hops up on a hollow deadfall and sends out his drumroll call for a mate, his wings a butterfly blur as they thrum against the log. |
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The black grouse is one of the many species first described in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, and still bears its original binomial name. |
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The gritstone and shale of the Dark Peak supports heather moorland and blanket bog environments, with rough sheep pasture and grouse shooting being the main land uses. |
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It mainly affects sheep and red grouse, but many other species have been reported to be susceptible, including dogs, llamas, alpacas, goats, pigs, and humans. |
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American Electric Power and the Ruffed Grouse Society today signed a partnership agreement to jointly enhance the environment for the ruffed grouse and other forest wildlife. |
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According to the MONARCH report, the three species most likely to disappear from Wales by 2080 are common scoter, black grouse, and a fern called oblong woodsia. |
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Mountain quail, sooty grouse, American dipper, great grey owls and the grey jay will be part of the Lane County Audubon Society's June birdwalk Saturday near Oakridge. |
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As the landscape slowly greens, birds such as whip-poor-will, woodpeckers, ruffed grouse and American woodcock will all benefit from the new landscape. |
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This virus may be a significant factor in red grouse populations. |
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The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds. |
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There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours. |
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The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. |
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The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. |
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Proponents claim that not only does heather burning help the grouse population thrive but it encourages other wildlife by creating a variety of habitats in moorland areas. |
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Driven grouse shooting is a field sport of the United Kingdom. |
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The gritstone landscape of the South West Peak also supports moorland environments although the landscape supports both farming and grouse shooting. |
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Unlike many areas of moorland in the north of England, the moors here are not managed for grouse shooting and consist largely of rough grassland and peat bog. |
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While the reason for this is not fully understood, it is clear that illegal persecution associated with commercial shooting of red grouse is a significant factor. |
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