What is a disheveled capercaillie?

The Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa Umbellus , is the middle member of the Grouse family. Ruffed grouse is about 16 to 19 inches long (41 to 48 cm), weighing 16 to 27 ounces (0.45 to 0.77 kg) and has a wing of about 22 to 25 inches (56 to 64 cm). In the color, the grouse is reddish -brown and has a spotted back. Marking men and women are similar, both of which have a hidden black impact of feathers around their neck. The birds have prominent tails with 18 wide feathers that look in the shape of a fan when they are open. In northern latitudes it is located throughout Canada and Alaska. Its range includes 38 of 49 continental United States. The Ruffed Grouse is a gaming bird that is hunted from the Cascade Mountains in California, through Wyoming, Utah and Minnesota, to the east like the Appalachian Mountains and to the south as the mountains of Georgia. Do not migrate these birds and often live their entire lives in the area, not greater than 40 hectares (16 hectares).

PRThe eference habitat of the disheveled capercaillie is mixed and deciduous forests in a cold, harsh terrain that have trees such as alder, birch or poplars. He likes forests that are matt and quiet and have deep thickets and thick undergrowth with only scattered cleaning. This grouse can sometimes be found on an overgrown pasture, but does not like open fields and one is rarely found in one. In winter, the crushed grouse adapted to the cold terrain by growing the web between the toes, so that the legs like snowshoes can easily walk on the snow.

Ruffed grouse feed mainly on tree buds and fruits. In the summer he will eat seeds and fruits. In winter they feed on buds after flying into shrubs or branches of trees. It will also eat some insects and small snakes or frogs.

With the exception of the mating period, the crushed grouse are lonely birds. The reproduction period is about mid -spring to the end of spring. The nesting nest on the ground on the ground and usually builds nests on the bottom of a tree or stump. The woman puts several eggs every few days and bIt takes her about 17 days to put a full clutch of 10-12 eggs. The chickens hatch after about three weeks and remain in a woman until they are fully grown in about four months.