Buds form the basis of the grouse's winter diet. Aspen, birch, beech, maple, cherry and apple buds are favored. Throughout winter and early spring, the bird eats ferns, green leaves and other ...

After a period, when the trees mature and the forest opens up more, grouse use the trees for catkins (or buds). In some years, 90 percent of their diet is male aspen catkins.” At Mille Lacs ...

While sage brush leaves make up the bulk of the sage grouse’s diet, the birds also feed on other plants and some insects. Sage grouse lack a muscular gizzard capable of grinding seeds ...

During cold months, blue grouse subsist on a diet of needles from Douglas fir and lodgepole pine. Conversely, they cannot digest Englemann spruce or subalpine fir. In addition to the obvious benefit ...

Remington took the research a step farther and studied diet selection in four captive birds too. The captive blue grouse were offered a variety of conifer needles, but like the wild counterparts ...

flowering plants that are key to the grouse diet. But spurring growth is tough at Jonah, which ekes out less than 10 inches of precipitation a year, most of which is snow, said Eric Peterson ...

A better case, if it pleases the court, might be made for the dusky grouse. Formerly known as the blue grouse, it’s a workingman’s bird, a mountain dweller that makes its summer home in ...

Dusky grouse are effectively camouflaged and cryptic much of the year, but when it comes to the spring mating season, the males are bright and bold In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis ...

The plot is meant to become habitat and forage for the wildlife of the scablands, including a scant population of sharp-tailed grouse. That will take years. The fence is there to make sure deer ...