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;[[:Category:Dendragapus|Dendragapus]] obscurus | ;[[:Category:Dendragapus|Dendragapus]] obscurus | ||
| − | [[Image:Blue_Grouse.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Dacol<br>Displaying male. Location: Clark, Colorado, USA]] | + | [[Image:Blue_Grouse.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Dacol<br>Displaying male. Location: Clark, [[Colorado]], [[USA]]]] |
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | 42cm. ''' | + | 42cm. Mottled brown, chicken-like birds with a dark tail. <br> |
| + | '''Males:''' have a yellow comb above the eye that can be raised during displays, and black-tipped white feathers on the neck that cover reddish patches of bare skin, which are inflatable during displays. Grey band on tail<br> | ||
| + | '''Females:''' are mottled brown above and mottled gray below. Brown tail with grey band. | ||
| + | Northern populations of Dusky Grouse (Nevada-Idaho border north) lack the blue-gray tail band seen in '''Sooty Grouse''', but '''Dusky Grouse''' in the southern part of the species range ([[Nevada]], [[Utah]], southward) do have the tail band. | ||
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==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
[[North America]]. | [[North America]]. | ||
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| − | The 47th Supplement to the AOU Checklist split this species into Dusky Grouse ''D. obscurus'' of the Rockies and Sooty Grouse ''D. fuliginosus'' of the Pacific Coast. | + | The 47th Supplement to the AOU Checklist split this species into '''Dusky Grouse''' ''D. obscurus'' of the Rockies and '''Sooty Grouse''' ''D. fuliginosus'' of the Pacific Coast. |
| − | [[Image: Blue_grouse_010_female.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by Dave B Smith<br />female (Dusky)<br />Location: Sheep River PP, Alberta, Canada]] | + | [[Image: Blue_grouse_010_female.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by Dave B Smith<br />female (Dusky)<br />Location: Sheep River PP, Alberta, [[Canada]]]] |
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
Revision as of 14:28, 8 October 2009
- Dendragapus obscurus
Identification
42cm. Mottled brown, chicken-like birds with a dark tail.
Males: have a yellow comb above the eye that can be raised during displays, and black-tipped white feathers on the neck that cover reddish patches of bare skin, which are inflatable during displays. Grey band on tail
Females: are mottled brown above and mottled gray below. Brown tail with grey band.
Northern populations of Dusky Grouse (Nevada-Idaho border north) lack the blue-gray tail band seen in Sooty Grouse, but Dusky Grouse in the southern part of the species range (Nevada, Utah, southward) do have the tail band.
Distribution
Taxonomy
The 47th Supplement to the AOU Checklist split this species into Dusky Grouse D. obscurus of the Rockies and Sooty Grouse D. fuliginosus of the Pacific Coast.
Habitat
Conifer and mixed forests, shrub, desert, tundra, upto 3,600m.
Behaviour
They nest in a ground scrape.
In winter the diet includes conifer needles,
References
47th Supplement to the AOU Checklist
