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GrasslandScrapeLarge · 882 g
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Adults have a relatively short tail with the two central (deck) feathers being square-tipped and somewhat longer than their lighter, outer tail feathers giving the bird its distinctive name. The plumage is mottled dark and light browns against a white background, they are lighter on the underparts with a white belly uniformly covered in faint V-shaped markings. These markings distinguish sharp-tailed grouse from lesser and greater prairie chickens which are heavily barred on their underparts. Adult males have a yellow comb over their eyes and a violet display patch on their neck.
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When to see the Sharp-tailed Grouse
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Sharp-tailed Grouse
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Sharp-tailed Grouse
The sharp-tailed grouse, also known as the sharptail or fire grouse, is a medium-sized prairie grouse. One of three species in the genus Tympanuchus, the sharp-tailed grouse is found throughout Alaska, much of Northern and Western Canada, and parts of the Western and Midwestern United States. The sharp-tailed grouse is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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Easily confused with
Greater Prairie ChickenTympanuchus cupidoAdults of both sexes are medium to large chicken-like birds, stocky with round wings.
Lesser Prairie ChickenTympanuchus pallidicinctusAdult individuals are medium to large birds, striped white and brown like its near relative, the Greater prairie-chicken (T. cupido), though it is smaller and paler.
Side by side: Greater Prairie Chicken vs Sharp-tailed Grouse
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