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What is this wannabe chicken? (1 Viewer)
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AStevenson
Well-known member
Looks like a moulting young Sooty grouse.
Cheers
,Andrew
Cheers
,Andrew
seilerbird
New member
A Sooty Grouse? There is no Sooty Grouse listed in Sibley? Did he fly in from another country or is a domestic?
The Falcon
Registered Birder
I don't have a field guide right in front of at the moment so I can't double check. But I think it looks more like a Gray Partridge if I remember correctly.
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The Falcon
Registered Birder
Ornithologists have separated the Blue Grouse into two species: the Dusky Grouse and the Sooty Grouse.
lockbreeze926
Well-known member
The Grey (or Gray) Partridge is a non-native species introduced to North America and can be found in the northern/NW parts of the US and southern Canada.
This does look like a scruffy/mo(u)lting individual, although not a field-guide-perfect one.
Edit - I don't like the tail on this one for a Partridge and I've never seen a Sooty Grouse, so......
This does look like a scruffy/mo(u)lting individual, although not a field-guide-perfect one.
Edit - I don't like the tail on this one for a Partridge and I've never seen a Sooty Grouse, so......
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Howard King
Well-known member
Do you have Fancolins over there - this reminds of of our introduced Grey Fancolin
peterarras
Well-known member
Hi,
Grey Partridge is out of the question and Grey Francolin also, I see every day dozens of them.
It looks for my like a grouse, but I have no experience with the North American species.
Cheers
Peter.
Grey Partridge is out of the question and Grey Francolin also, I see every day dozens of them.
It looks for my like a grouse, but I have no experience with the North American species.
Cheers
Peter.
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Amurfalcon
Young Birder
This is a moulting Sooty Grouse, easily told by range (I don't think Dusky Grouse is there and Gray Partridge is not) if nothing else works. It does not have the right pattern on the wings at all for a Gray Partridge.
The Falcon
Registered Birder
After looking at a field guide and looking at the photo again, I see that I was wrong with my ID. I'd agree that this is a Sooty Grouse. And yes Dusky Grouse's should not be seen in north west Washington.
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seilerbird
New member
A Sooty Grouse, Thanks for all your help.
AStevenson
Well-known member
The difficulty is that young gamebirds have a juvenile plumage which rarely illustrated or described as they moult out of it relatively quickly during their first autumn - I was going on the adult type grey feathering coming in on the underparts and the tail.
Cheers,
Andrew
Cheers,
Andrew
