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Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: Uplandbum on October 17, 2017, 12:38:44 PM

Title: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: Uplandbum on October 17, 2017, 12:38:44 PM: I never hunt grouse and rarely see them. I took this picture on Friday.
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: npaull on October 17, 2017, 12:41:11 PM: Looks like a sooty/dusky (formerly blue) to me. Where was this (will help some with ID)?
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: Uplandbum on October 17, 2017, 12:44:58 PM: It was in Douglas County near Wenatchee.
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: bobcat on October 17, 2017, 12:47:17 PM: Douglas county? Really? Sure looks like a blue grouse but I didn't think there were any on that side of the river.
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: npaull on October 17, 2017, 12:52:03 PM: Yeah, I think then that it's technically a dusky grouse (again, the species that was once "blue grouse" has split into two, because ornithologists seem to love to do that).
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: Uplandbum on October 17, 2017, 12:52:30 PM: I have hunted this place for 5 years for deer and chukar and have never seen a grouse. I was surprised as well.
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: Tiger1358 on October 17, 2017, 12:56:44 PM: It's a blue/dusky grouse.

Did you get him?
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on October 17, 2017, 01:36:20 PM: I know a few places in Douglas County with blue/dusky grouse, mainly timber patches high in the breaks above the Columbia. That's a male.
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Post by: Pegasus on October 17, 2017, 03:34:03 PM: Hopefully its a dead grouse.
Title: Re: What Type of Grouse is This?
Post by: Hilltop123 on October 17, 2017, 03:38:52 PM: Wow, guess dad was right. " Grouse are never where they are suppose to be, they are where you find them."