The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77634   Message #1386380
Posted By: open mike
23-Jan-05 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Perhaps a Grouse?
Subject: RE: BS: Perhaps a Grouse?
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i3000id.html
or perhaps a sharp tailed grouse?
http://www.ruffedgrousesociety.org/
or would you believe woodcock?
ptarmigan?
chukar?
i htink my favorite is the chachalaca or hte cendragapus obscurus!!

GROUSE, TURKEY & QUAIL-Order: Galliformes
Chachalaca-Family: Cracidae
    Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
Grouse-Family: Phasianidae
    Chukar Alectoris chukar
    Gray Partridge Perdix perdix
    Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
    Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
    Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
    Gunnison Sage-Grouse Centrocercus minimus
    Spruce Grouse Falcipennis canadensis
    Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus
    Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus mutus
    White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucurus
    Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus
    Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
    Greater Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido
    Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
    Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
Quail-Family: Odontophoridae
    Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus
    Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata
    California Quail Callipepla californica
    Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
    Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
    Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae

i htink my favorite is the chachalaca or hte cendragapus obscurus!!