As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

It appears that spring has already arrived in much of the Hudson Valley region after a mild winter. I have had reports of forsythia in full bloom in Kingston as early as March 3. This is a full month ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed ...

I was out walking along a trail in the woods after a recent snow looking for animal tracks. Tracking is a great way to find out who exactly is living in your neighborhood; all that wildlife we might ...

The Pennsylvania state bird is the Ruffed Grouse, a smallish brown-and-tan bird which prefers the state's woods and forests. If you've never seen one in person, the best time to go looking is during ...

Can you please tell me what this bird is (see attached photo)? It was walking across my driveway this morning and I have never seen it before. It looks a bit like a female pheasant. What do you think?

If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush. The explosion of feathers and wings and all thing bird both will startle you and, in a ...

ROME, N.Y. -- Deer hunter John Page is becoming an ardent bird watcher this fall due to a wild, but extremely friendly ruffed grouse. It all began during the opening week of the Northern Zone ...

Members of the Ralph K. Bell bird club of Greene County study the sky on a recent bird watching trip. A recent report by the National Audubon Society revealed that the ruffed grouse, Pennsylvania’s ...

Perhaps more than at any time in history, Minnesota ruffed grouse hunters don't know what to expect when they decamp to the woods on Saturday, opening day of the "ruffie" season. That's because in the ...

If upland game birds were ranked by the power of their takeoff, a ruffed grouse would be TNT. The word "explosive" invariably enters descriptions -- often as part of excuse-giving -- of birds that ...