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n.
a partridge-like game bird, Bonasa umbellus, occurring in many subspecies across Canada.
See: ruffed grouse
Quotations
1963
Most alarming decline of all is in grouse, with the tally dropping almost 50 per cent . . . Most of the drop was in ruffeds, though blue, sharptail and franklin were all down. This is what biologists mean when they speak of the cyclic population CRASH of grouse.