Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
They are Ruffed Grouse. Indigenous to North America, and, nowhere else. It is impossible to raise them in captivity, and they are perhaps the best tablefair of all the Grouse. The hunting is a bit intense, they live in dense woods and tend to hold tightly until you are on top of them, when they flush in a noisy and startling bass profundo.
I would be content to hunt them exclusively the rest of my days.
You are not the first to compare them to a small hawk or kestrel. They are strictly prey, not predatory.

Best,
Ted

Thanks Ted