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	Black Grouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) is a large bird in the grouse family.
		The Black Grouse is closely related to the Caucasian Black Grouse.
		The cock is very distinctive, with fl plumage, apart from red eyebrows and a white wingbar, and a lyre-shaped tail, which appears forked in flight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Grouse (349 words)

	Caucasian Black Grouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caucasian Black Grouse (Tetrao mlokosiewiczi) is a large bird in the grouse family.
		The Caucasian Black Grouse is a sedentary species, breeding in the Caucasus Mountains and northeast Turkey on open slopes with low Rhododendron or other scrubs.
		Unlike the male Black Grouse, he is almost mute, but a thin whistling is produced by his wings in display.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caucasian_Black_Grouse (223 words)

	Grouse Hunting Outfitters of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Grouse are henlike terrestrial birds, protectively plumaged in shades of red, brown, and gray.
		The most common eastern American grouse is the ruffed grouse (sometimes miscalled partridge or pheasant), Bonasa umbellus, a forest bird noted for the drumming sound made by the male during its elaborate courtship dance.
		The ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), or snow grouse, is an arctic species that migrates to the NW United States in winter, when its plumage changes from rusty brown to white, matching the snow.
	www.huntingoutfitters.ca /Grouse_hunting_outfitters_Canada.htm (316 words)

	Black grouse - Tetrao tetrix: More Information - ARKive
		The fl grouse, also known as 'flgame' (4) is one of Britain's most striking gamebirds (5).
		In Britain the fl grouse is found in Scotland, the north of England, and in scattered areas of Wales (7).
		In Britain the fl grouse occupies a mosaic of woodland and scrub with an understory of heather (Caluna vulgaris) and bilberry (Vaccinium myrtilus).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/birds/Tetrao_tetrix/more_info.html (674 words)

	Black grouse UK - Published in support of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan for black grouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sight and sound of fl grouse in the hills are an experience that, once witnessed, is rarely forgotten.
		Black grouse is one of the most rapidly declining birds in the UK.
		Black grouse is a high priority species for action by conservation organisations and the UK government.
	www.blackgrouse.info (239 words)

	Grouse - Birds ProvenceBeyond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The hazel grouse (or hazelhen) is found in northern Europe an in most of the Beyond area, except along the coast.
		This beautiful grouse (male) is all fl, with a white wing bar, red head patch, and a lyre-shaped tail.
		In the spring and autumn, the fl grouse gather in large groups at communal display grounds, or "leks".
	www.beyond.fr /birds/grouse.html (134 words)

	Forestry Commission - Wild Woods - Black Grouse
		The fl grouse is well known for the early morning displays of the male (flcock).
		Black grouse range over uplands from Wales to North Scotland, but their distribution has contracted by 28% since the 1970s.
		Black grouse feed on the buds and shoots of trees and shrubs, and berries and seeds.
	www.forestry.gov.uk /website/oldsite.nsf/byunique/blackgrouse?Open&PrintFriendly=y (437 words)

	black grouse habitat - keystage 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black grouse inhabit woods and plantations at the edges of moorlands.
		Black grouse are uncommon in England and, except for a few isolated pairs, are not found any further south than the Staffordshire moorlands.
		Black grouse prefer the open, exposed habitat of moorlands and use the surrounding trees for food and shelter.
	www2002.stoke.gov.uk /museums/pmag/nathist/environment/content2/black_grouse_keystage2.htm (96 words)

	Watching the black grouse - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Black grouse lek for much of the year, the key period being April and May.
		Black grouse pay little attention to stationary vehicles that are at least 100 metres away.
		Keep dogs under control (on a lead) when close to fl grouse habitat and do not bring dogs into the field when you are watching grouse.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/birdwatching/blackgrouse/watching.asp (285 words)

	IUCN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Grouse Specialist Group (GSG) was formally founded in 1993 by the World Pheasant Association (WPA) and SSC, although grouse specialists had already maintained a close network within the WPA since the 1970s.
		Grouse play an important conservation role, because as typical representatives of a wide spectrum of natural habitats, they are indicators of ecosystem health.
		Kathy started studying grouse as a behavioural ecologist in 1980 and found them to be endlessly fascinating; such a wide array of ecologies, habitats occupied, mating systems, dispersal and social behaviours for a small bird subfamily.
	www.iucn.org /themes/SSC/sgprofiles/grouse.htm (2113 words)

	Ecology: Landscape Fragmentation And Forest Composition Effects On Grouse Breeding Success In Boreal Forests
		The breeding success of grouse was negatively correlated with both fragmentation of forest area per se by farmland and the decreasing proportion of older forest as a result of clear-cutting.
		The diminished breeding success of forest grouse as a result of increased forest fragmentation is a probable cause of population declines in forest grouse species during the past decades in Fennoscandia.
		Black Grouse and Capercaillie are forest-dwelling grouse species with lekking behavior, ground nests, and precocial chicks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_7_81/ai_63914312 (1352 words)

	Birds: The Black Grouse
		The Black Cock does not pair, but leaves his numerous mates to the duties of maternity and follows his own desires while they prepare their nests, lay their eggs, hatch them, and bring up the young.
		The Black Grouse is a wild and wary creature.
		Her general color is brown, with a tinge of orange, barred with fl and speckled with the same hue, the spots and bars being larger on the breast, back, and wings, and the feathers on the breast more or less edged with white.
	www.birdnature.com /dec1897/grouse.html (433 words)

	Black Grouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The male bird is known as the Black cock, the female, the Grey hen.
		Black grouse were once common throughout most of this country.
		In a number of places, moor owners are actively working to restore the Black grouse population by planting native trees on the moor edge and in the gills.
	www.moorlandassociation.org /blackgrouse.htm (206 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Scotland \| Bid to save black grouse
		It is thought that the UK's fl grouse population has fallen by more than 60% in some of its former strongholds north of the border.
		The Argyll and Bute Black Grouse Recovery Project is endeavouring to ensure that the numbers are not threatened any further in western Scotland.
		Work on monitoring the numbers of fl grouse is already under way, along with moves to co-operate with land owners to protect leks - the birds' courting sites.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2154537.stm (441 words)

	Forestry Commission - The Welsh Black Grouse Recovery Project
		Black grouse numbers have declined dramatically, particularly over the past decade.
		Black grouse in Wales, prefer woodland edge habitats, particularly where they adjoin heather moorland.
		From 1997 to 2002 fl grouse numbers within the key areas have increased by 88%.
	www.forestry.gov.uk /website/oldsite.nsf/byunique/infd-5mjlhv?Open&PrintFriendly=y (445 words)

	Black grouse - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Black grouse - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		The all-fl males have distinctive red wattle over the eye and show a striking white stripe along each wing in flight.
		Two fl grouse displaying at lek at the RSPB Abernethy Forest nature reserve - Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com, Ref: 9001998_00457_002.)
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/b/blackgrouse/index.asp (246 words)

	BIOL 259
		Temporal spillover vs spatial spillover on fl grouse leks.
		Spatial spillover is suggested by the fact that new territories were established near the copulation centre of the lek from the previous year.
		Wiley, RH 1973, Territoriality and non-random mating in sage grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus.
	www.unc.edu /~rhwiley/courses/biol259/fall98/1118Hymabibl.html (498 words)

	Cococococks Ruthin Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Modelling the Climate's effect on fl grouse population in the Rhön biosphere reserve.
		There are many fl grouse conservation groups within the UK who have now benefited from meeting with, and talking to, their European counterparts.
		It was agreed that special interest should be given to the study of wind farm disturbance at fl grouse habitat and these findings be central to the Vienna conference in 2007.
	www.ulg.ac.be /museezoo/cococococks/wales (861 words)

	Sunbirds.com: Hunt for a Black Grouse - Russian Lacquer item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But without some additional information about the habits of the fl grouse, it may seem like this hunter is in for an easy prize.
		The grouse is considered one of the most prized game birds in all of Russia and Siberia (and one of the hardest to hunt too).
		Ivan Alexandrovich Chelyshev, lacquer miniaturist, born in the village of Danilovo, Ivanovo Region, on November 24, and died in the village of Palekh on December 10, 1973.
	www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/box/770195 (726 words)

	Spruce Grouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Males are fl and gray above, and fl below, variegated with white; females are brown, tawny, and fl above, and.dull-whitish below, barred with fl.
		The Spruce Grouse is a bird of the northern wilderness.
		The Spruce Grouse is a dweller in dark spruce woods and tamarack swamps, north into boreal regions, probably as far as its favorite trees extend.
	goodfelloweb.com /birds/upland_ground/spruce_grouse.html (407 words)

	ESPN Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is lighter on the back than the belly with fl edges on the feathers giving a mottled gray and white appearance.
		The tail is mottled fl with a chestnut terminal band.
		The Spruce Grouse lives on the edges of coniferous forests in the trees, preferably spruce, fir, larch, pine or cedar.
	espn.go.com /outdoors/general/s/g_enc_spruce_grouse.html (284 words)

	BirdForum - Balls to Black grouse
		Black grouse recovery officer Phil Warren said: "Black grouse fly at up to 60mph and collisions with power lines can be fatal."
		Making the lines more visible to fl grouse would help the birds avoid them, keeping them safe and increasing the numbers of fl grouse in the area, which Mr Warren said was "the English stronghold for these rare birds".
		It is part of the North Pennines Black Grouse Recovery Project, in which tens of thousands of pounds have been spent safeguarding these endangered birds.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=10379 (276 words)

	gbwf.org, Grouse - Aviculture & Conservation
		Sometimes considered a subfamily of Phasianidae, the nine genera of Grouse have recently been moved to their own family, Tetraonidae.
		Grouse are unique, feathered-legged galliformes that are found in the forests and grasslands of the Northern Hemisphere.
		The Ruffed Grouse is perhaps the most well established species in North America and the Black Grouse in Europe.
	www.gbwf.org /grouse (398 words)

	Rancho Hunting - Animals - Woodcock, Black Grouse, Capercaillie, Hazel Grouse, brown Bear etc.
		The Black Grouse cock hunting is undertaken by waiting for the first light of dawn in a small prepared hide adjacent to well established mating territories.
		The Hazel Grouse is again walked up over dogs, usually in the same season as woodcock.
		The population of Hazel Grouse is quite significant in the hunting territories but it is often very difficult for the dogs to wind this bird and therefore is very challenging to hunt.
	www.rancho-hunting.com /english/animals.html (514 words)

	Cococococks Vienna Black grouse Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 4th International Black Grouse Conference will put emphasis on the alpine situation of Black grouse considering detrimental influences on Black grouse habitats such as leisure time tourism, outdoor-sports or building projects like wind parks or chairlifts.
		Of course, the 4th International Black Grouse Conference will be open to many other topics dealing with Black grouse, its habitat and management.
		Researchers studying Black grouse are kindly invited to present their studies, results and latest experiences.
	www.ulg.ac.be /museezoo/cococococks/vienna (218 words)

	Capercailye (wood-grouse) and black grouse hunting in Belarus
		Capercailye (wood-grouse) and fl grouse hunting in Belarus
		Hunting is held always at dawn and it is always individual.
		The program of your stay may be changed in accordance with your wishes or special preferences.
	www.bysands.net /en/vesna.php (152 words)

	Tetrao tetrix
		Male Black Grouse could only be confused with Capercaillies but they are smaller with forked tails and white wing bars.
		Females are more like Red Grouse but are bigger, greyer and have narrow white wing bars.
		Black Grouse are widespead but declining birds in the forested parts of northern and eastern Europe.
	www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Tetrao_tetrix.htm (218 words)

	Mystery Bird of the "Lady and the Unicorn"
		On the Black Grouse the fl extends farther down onto the breast, and the white below is confined to the undertail coverts.
		I imagine that earlier than the Lady and Unicorn series, which scholars judge to be from the late 15th century, someone had depicted a realistic Black Grouse in some tapestry or painting.
		However, the later artists most likely had never seen a Black Grouse, and so they changed the shape to make the art bird look more like birds with which they were familiar.
	www.birdwatching.com /currrents/tapestrybird.html (508 words)

	Avian Research Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alatalo RV, J Höglund and A Lundberg 1991: Lekking in the fl grouse - a test of male viability.
		Microsatellite markers reveal the potential for kin selection on fl grouse leks.
		Inbreeding depression and male fitness in fl grouse.
	www.jyu.fi /bio/eko/avian/publications.htm (207 words)

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