Tétras du Canada - Falcipennis canadensis
Spruce Grouse

Tétras du Canada - Falcipennis canadensis

The Spruce Grouse is one of relatively few bird species named for Canada, if only in the scientific name, although most Canadians have never seen one. They live in the boreal forests from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador, south only into a few northern states in the U.S. I have shown a male in front, not yet in display but clearly aware of and reacting to the female just behind him. Spruce Grouse vary in colour and pattern through their range. The females I saw in northern Manitoba are noticeably darker than the ones here in Ontario, for example, and the oddly rusty-orange tail tip is missing in western birds, which were once called “Franklin’s Grouse”. Some females are quite reddish.

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