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Can anyone enlighten me as to whether this is a male ruffed grouse or a female spruce grouse? Spotted in northern vermont yesterday. Apologies for resolution. [img:left] http://imgur.com/a/hgOlk5a[/img]
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Dan S. W.,
In reality the picture is to distorted to make a decent identification.
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Hen spruce grouse, dont shoot it! The molting on the neck runs down through the breast, and the tail feathers are short and stubby, not only to mention no tuffed on the head. If you can get a clean look you will see a red ring around the eye. In the field you literally can walk up to one and grab it! Hope that helps.
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No worries RAR, aware of the protected status and I was unarmed. The way they behave, I probably could have picked it up.
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Dan S.W.,
RARiddell is probably correct however with the distorted picture it's really hard to actually tell what we are looking at. A very young female Ruffed Grouse would look similar.
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The other factor was it was in a heavily posted spruce grouse area (near a moose bog) and behaved as apparently spruce grouse do when approached by a human, which is essentially to do nothing but pose while I stood five feet away taking about a dozen slightly grainy pics because my phone camera was excessively zoomed.
I would say it is pretty much definitely a spruce hen.
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The resolution of the photo is poor, but I’d bet spruce too.
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I learned something from this thread. I thought Spruce Grouse were strictly a western bird...Geo
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Spruce grouse IMO. Too darkly mottled for a female ruffed grouse.
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