western capercaillie
wood grouse
heather cock
tetrao urogallus latin

The only bird known to make use of infrasound (at about 20 Hz) is the western capercaillie.

Additionally Western Capercaillie have two appendixes which grow very long in winter.

Western Capercaillie are diurnal game, i.e. their activity is limited to the daylight hours.

Males are bigger than females-twice as heavy in the Western Capercaillie, the biggest member of the family.

During the short winter days the Western Capercaillie feeds almost constantly and produces a pellet nearly every 10 minutes.

Thus, the Western Capercaillie never had particularly high densities, despite the legends that hunters like to speculate about.

When he pauses to shoot a male Western Capercaillie taking advantage of his apparent numbness, she manages to scare away the bird.

The Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is a large, dark forest grouse, very difficult to observe.

Western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

In the far west of its range the Black-billed Capercaillie has been known to hybridise with the Western Capercaillie.

WAZA's virtual zoo - Western Capercaillie.

Avian populations include the Golden Eagle, Western Capercaillie, and Hazel Grouse.

The world of birds is much richer, comprising among others black grouse, Tengmalm's owl, alpine accentor, water pipit, common redpoll, Western Capercaillie.

Birds of interest include the Cantabrian Capercaillie, a subspecies of the Western Capercaillie, which requires mature woodland to thrive.

Originating from Argyll, a region of western Scotland, the band is named after the Western Capercaillie, sometimes called a wood grouse, a native Scottish bird.

Red-listed Western Capercaillie and Ptarmigan breed in Scotland and are absent elsewhere in the British Isles.

The Western Capercaillie is adapted to its original habitats-old coniferous forests with a rich interior structure and dense ground vegetation of Vaccinium species under a light canopy.

Western Capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus, and White-tailed Eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla, are reintroductions of formerly breeding species.

The Rackelhahn also known as Rackelwild is a member in the grouse family and a bird hybrid between the Western Capercaillie and the Black Grouse.

The Cantabrian Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) is a subspecies of the Western Capercaillie in the grouse family Tetraonidae.

The courting season of the Western Capercaillie starts according to spring weather progress, vegetation development and altitude between March and April and lasts until May or June.

The Black-billed Capercaillie, or Spotted Capercaille, (Tetrao parvirostris) is a large grouse species closely related to the more widespread Western Capercaillie.

The Western Capercaillie is a highly specialized herbivore, which feeds almost exclusively on blueberry leaves and berries along with some grass seeds and fresh shoots of sedges in summertime.

A wide range of habitats available in the park benefits a variety of wildlife such as Boreal Owl, Lynx, Peregrine Falcon, Western Capercaillie, Dianthus superbus, Cranberry, Drosera ...

Rare birds, such as the golden eagle, (also represented on the park logo), lesser spotted eagle, short-toed eagle, peregrine falcon, western capercaillie, Eurasian eagle-owl, Eurasian pygmy-owl and the black stork reside here.

Wood Grouse is found across Europe lives e.g. in Finnish pine forests.

Metso's logo mimics the shape of the wings of a Wood Grouse.

Moon on the Water met The Wood Grouse Dances.

Another hypothesis is that the term was derived from a transformation of the Finno-Ugric name for Wood Grouse.

The Karelo-Finnish Laika breed is extremely good at hunting small game such as squirrels and wood grouse.

The symbol of the Park - wood grouse - until recently was common in the area, especially in the Forest District of Klosnowo.

It was given its nickname Auerhahn ("capercaillie" or "wood grouse") because of its noise when running, which sounds like a courting capercaillie.

Album: Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays...

The Norrbottenspets is used to hunt wood grouse, black grouse, capercaillie and hazel grouse, but also fox, marten and raccoon.

The following two albums, Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays and Weiland are acoustic, display a constantly heavier neofolk influence.

For birds lovers in the area there are wood grouse, golden eagles, falcons, king fishers, and the famous Wallcreeper in the Trigrad Gorge.

Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays (1999) is the third album by the German symphonic folk/doom metal band Empyrium.

Originating from Argyll, a region of western Scotland, the band is named after the Western Capercaillie, sometimes called a wood grouse, a native Scottish bird.

It has the forequarters and hindlegs of a European hare (Lepus europaeus), and the back, wings and tail of a female wood grouse (Tetrao urogallus).

The Wood Grouse Dances cost him a shallow gash on his left shoulder, and the Red Hawk Takes a Dove another on the left arm, slightly deeper.

"We know all about you," Mikhail Gorbachev said on shaking his hand and peering into his face; a cross, Joseph Brodsky thought, between a wood grouse and a spaniel.

Once we were treated to a tasting of bear, hare, wood grouse and willow ptarmigan, served with mashed potato (another staple) and jellies such as spruce, lingonberry and yellow cloudberry.

Like the Norwegian black metal band Burzum, Empyrium also used Theodor Kittelsen's drawing on one of their album covers (Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays).

Most notably the Wood Grouse has a permanent presence in the reserve, and as the area is barely sufficient for the species it is regarded as important to maintain or if possible increase the size of the area.

It is a phantasmagoric display of bison heads and dear antlers and boar tusks and wood grouse tail feathers, each mounted on a wooden plaque inscribed with the date and place where they were shot.

Some 92 plant species and 119 vertebrates of national, European and world significance are found here, these include the deer roe, marten, hazel dormouse, black stork, golden eagle, wood grouse, Rosalia longicorn and the wood ant.

Goldin has also appeared in several off Broadway productions: Nest Of The Wood Grouse, Feathered Serpent, Happy Journey, Queens of France, Long Christmas Dinner, and Our Town [4].

The fauna includes many endangered species, such as Gray Wolf, Wood Grouse, Black Grouse, Hoopoe, Eurasian Eagle-owl, Osprey, Mountain Hare, Stoat, Coronella austriaca, Great Capricorn Beetle, Lucanus cervus.

Other sites of interest are Tampere Cathedral, Tampere City Library Metso ("wood grouse"), Kaleva Church (both designed by Reima Pietilä), the Tampere Hall for conferences and concerts and the Tampere Market Hall.

For example, the mixed mountain forest is the natural habitat of the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus).

Minimum viable population size of capercaillie Tetrao Urogallus: results from a stochastic model.

The Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is a large, dark forest grouse, very difficult to observe.

Western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

Among the most sought-after game birds in Romania is the Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), a large turkey-like bird, which have a significant presence in the country.

Moss R, Lockie I (1979) Infrasonic components in the song of the Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus.

Subspecies Cantabrian capercaillie Tetrao Urogallus cantabricus endangered according to IUCN criteria.

Western Capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus, and White-tailed Eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla, are reintroductions of formerly breeding species.

CAPERCAILLIE Tetrao urogallus.

It has the forequarters and hindlegs of a European hare (Lepus europaeus), and the back, wings and tail of a female wood grouse (Tetrao urogallus).

Some of the most important ones are capercaillie "Tetrao urogallus", Rock Ptarmigan "Lagopus muta", Golden eagle "Aquila chrysaetos", Griffon Vulture "Gyps fulvus" or Bearded Vulture "Gypaetus barbatus".