And this was abundantly clear to me the other day while I sat in a tiny chair blind, in the dark, waiting for the sun to come up and for a ruffed grouse to enter the habitat that lay before me.

The ruffed grouse has been Pennsylvania's state bird since 1931. This brown, chicken-like bird gets its name from the black "ruffs" on the side of its neck. Sign up for our Newsletters It was an ...

ExploreCincy Boat Show at Sharonville Convention Center continues this week Some of my favorite annual outings used to be the tail end of Ohio’s October-to-February Ruffed Grouse season.

A symbol of the American West, the greater sage grouse is a large, ground-dwelling bird known for its spell-binding mating dances, in which the males inflate their chests to show off their strength.