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grouse
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synonyms: Tetraoninae, prairie chicken ???
tags: [avian] [food] [sport]
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Definition:Grouse are heavily built [birds] like other Galliformes, such as chickens. [...]Grouse are game, and hunters kill millions each year for food, sport, and other uses. In the United Kingdom, this takes the form of driven grouse shooting. The male black grouse's tail feathers are a traditional ornament for hats in areas such as Scotland and the Alps. Folk dances from the Alps to the North American prairies imitate the displays of lekking males.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
image: by Archibald Thorburn, https://www.wikiart.org/en/archibald-thorburn/red-grouse-on-the-moor-1917sound file: by Lawrence Shove (original file trimmed to reduce file size)[CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 )]
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About seven days ago he sent me a brace of grouse—the last of the season.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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he [...] set off next day to a remote district to see his friend Sviazhsky, who had splendid marshes for grouse in his neighborhood, and had lately written to ask him to keep a long-standing promise to stay with him.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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"I was up for a grouse shoot with your admiral last September. [...]"
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.118 (1984)
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