Pennsylvania has a state bird, state tree, state song and soon — thanks to some students — it could have an official state ...

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.

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.