Voices: Ruffed Grouse
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Listen as Macaulay Library Audio Archivist Martha Fischer describes listening to the drum of a male Ruffed Grouse.
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Im a dirt biker. When I was a kid I went for a ride and My plug wire came off. As im fixing my bike I hear what sounded like another biker trying to start his bike. Well I walked around for an hour looking for him so I could help. Never saw the biker and never saw the bird. Two years later My Dad asks if I wan to go Grouse hunting, figuring its like Pheasant I agreed. A few hours later I found that "Broken bike"
Wow I heard one once well I was with my dad fixing fence
redneckhippiefreak before I started hunting, I always thought that the farmer near my house was trying to start up his tractor a ton of times during the day.
In northern NH grouse hunting is pretty common. It sucks hearing a bunch going off all at once and you can't tell what direction it's coming from. I currently have one in my backyard.
Fair enough, those feathered bastards sound like Yoshimura, or Akrapovič lol.
Schon traurig wie man Tiere verachtet aber sie gerne Jagd und frisst....@@mauricecalvillo8486
Every spring I look forward to hearing this while morel hunting. The more we hear the happier I am because I know they made it through another Saskatchewan winter.
Morel?
@@KingTurtle5 morel mushrooms.
@@G-man45444 You dont hunt shrooms. At most you find them, at least you pick them.
@@99hockeynhl hunt ….”search determinedly for someone or something”
@@G-man45444 1.
pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.
People search for and pick berries, not hunt; mushrooms are no different.
Went for a quick hike in the George Washington National Forest in western VA near Harrisonburg. It felt like a low, strong vibration. almost felt like it was coming from the earth. like a huge ball being bounced on the ground, bouncing slow to fast.
I had never heard or felt that sound in the forest before. I couldn’t find an explanation for it until now! What an amazing bird, and what a cool experience! Now I know to look out for one if I hear it again.
As a child, I used to describe their sound as someone struggling to get a lawnmower to start. Lol
That's similar to what my 13yo son said last weekend. He said it reminded him of an old tractor starting.
We lived so far out in the middle of the blue ridge mountains growing up our closest neighbor was a little over 5 miles away. I was 12 when I heard the sound of a motor struggling to start that seemed to be far away in the forest. Then it occurred to me no one was around for any kind of motor to be struggling to start! lol I told my Father and he said it was a grouse calling up his girlfriend! I would sit up in a tree by the cornfield in the valley before dusk and dawn as instructed listening and watching until I finally got to see and hear the grouse on a stump one morning calling up his girlfriend! Of course I got to see almost every other kind of animal coming to the cornfield to eat. To this day 40+ years later I still hang out in the trees and otherwise watching, listening and enjoying the greatest TV show on earth! It is truly amazing the things I have been honored to witness in the wild.
+Gerald West
i am from the mountains of tenn,on the n.c. border,close to the blue ridge..ive been hunting all my life..you r right,its the best t.v.show made..ive got to see things that most people will never even imagine..there is a whole world out there & its a shame that most people miss it..we grew up eating small game,mainly because large game was almost gone..my papaw would wait until a grouse was drumming & then move quick so it would mask the noise he made..he would get as close as possible then "bang"..nothing like grouse in the crock pot..truly magnificent & beautiful animals..people said we were poor..i think we were the richest souls around..love that sound
VeganVixen ًوًطيىيًَةك و ودوطبىزطيتي
Some of my dearest and fondest memories as a teen spending countless hours in prime grouse habitat listening to "Ole Ruff" telling all of his ladies that he was truly "King of the Woods ". To this day, I still feel a rush of emotion and adrenaline.
I have one living in the woods beside my house for the last 2 years. He drums all year long all hours of the day and night. He really needs a girlfriend.
He's drumming to the beat of an imaginary heart . He's awaiting somebody to lay his eggs
I heard this one time while camping alone and thought I was going crazy! Sounds like a giant bouncy ball being dropped on the ground haha.
+skyiswomb1 I honestly thought the exact same thing and that's how i'd describe it to people. Like a giant bouncy ball. I tried looking it up with no success and then finally while taking a hunters education course I learned about the Ruffed Grouse and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Thanks Martha and Cornell. Great work, yes it's "felt" more than heard, either way it's fascinating. Once I saw a male do some sort of display dance just outside my backyard.
When you flush one their thunderous wings scare the heck out of you! I've been chasing them for over 45 years. There's nothing like the "theater" of the outdoors!
Used to hear this all the time outside my window and was always so confused about what it was. Sadly the grouse that frequented my backyard passed today right after I finally got to figure out what it was. Thank you for this amazing video and I hope my little friend rests in peace
I remember hearing this back in 2002 while camping in the backwoods of rural Vermont. One of the most haunting sounds that I ever took in and in my opinion, is exactly how most theropods (dromeaosauridae in particular) communicated back in the late Jurassic, early Cretacous and beyond until their extinction.
It's plausible but how could we ever prove that? Whether they had feathers is still debatable, let alone how they'd use them.
My family and I were backpacking/camping in pleasant Grove, Utah last night and kept "feeling" the sound in our ears and we finally saw it - about 20 yards in front of us from our tent. It made its sound ALL night every little bit. Of course as soon as we got home today, I was trying to find out what it was and I stumbled across this video. Thanks for sharing!!!
It was in the early 70's when I was deer hunting in VT. so it was in Nov. I remember the day like it was yesterday! We had about 18" of snow that had fallen during the night on top of the 8" that was already on the ground so walking was very slow with frequent stops to catch your breath and all the sounds were pretty muffled because it was a soft snow. Around 9 am the sun started to show and within a short time the snow on the trees began to fall off and I got a big pile of it down the back of my neck into my shirt! I was clearing that out when I heard this faint thump, thump thump, and I'm thinking "what the hell is that". Several min. later I start hearing it again but this time the thumps were more frequent and with increasing speed, now I'm busting with curiosity , I've got to find out what that is! I began to move very slowly through the soft snow and it probably took me an hour or so to cover 100 yards but the sound is getting louder so I know I'm moving in the right direction. Over the next hour I maybe went only 50 yards but I can see movement that is definitely associated with the sound but because of heavy brush I could not tell what it was. Ok, now I've got to figure this out! Another hour or so of extremely slow movement and suddenly I'm looking at the back of a partridge not more than 10 feet from me but he is motionless and was moving his head around like he is trying to listen for something, so I just stood motionless and watched. After several min. he raised his wings up to about the top of his head and then they came down on the log with ever increasing speed! Then he would stop for a min. or 2 and start again. He repeated this 4 or 5 times and then stopped and started moving his head around again like he was listening, and listened for about 1/2 hour and then started again. This shy bird was totally unaware that I was within 10 feet of him and I couldn't leave because I realized that I was witnessing something that people who spend their entire lives in the woods would never see! Deer hunting took a back seat that day.
What an incredible experience! Thanks ever so much for sharing! I can just picture the whole situation as you retell the story.
Reading this is magical as I hear the sounds from the video. Thank you!
Hiking on the Appalachian Trail I heard these guys all of the time. A couple of times they almost gave me a heart attack too, because they're pretty well camouflaged and wait until the last second to clumsily spring up out of the bushes and flap away wildly just inches from a surprised backpacker's head.
This is amazing! I hear this all time at my cabin. I always wondered if it was some distant neighbor relentlessly trying and failing to start their generator!
Scott the woz moment
My girlfriend and I heard one Sunday night while camping near Grand Marais. We were totally baffled as to what it could be. We imagined a much bigger animal of course. The audio quality of this recording is great.
How cool...its like he's really bouncing his beaks off of the log...I just moved to Virginia, and I came across one of these little buggers, out of nowhere! I'm in love, as a bird watcher! Sure a beautiful creature...
We seriously thought that some guy with the greatest patience in the world, but the worst small engine knowledge ever, was working on his tractor from sunrise to sunset for the entire Memorial Day weekend while we were camping in the wilderness. We discussed what was wrong. "It's sparking. The starter is fine. Bad gas. Clogged fuel filter. Carb needs cleaned. Water in it." For 4 days we discussed and even looked for the poor soul when we drove anywhere. We didn't find this video until we got internet service on the highway home. We weren't even looking for this, but the bird we scared away two nights in a row (nighthawk). When this came up we laughed so hard for so long! We are never going to forget this whole adventure!
what a fascinating creature!
Buggers scare the absolute S#%T out of me when i go deer hunting.
They always wait to fly just as you're about to step on them LOL
Ja der Jäger ist ein Mörder....die tollen Tiere wollen nur vor solch Monster wie der Mensch ist nur warnen.
I always describe it to people as a second, really fast heart beat. Such cool birds!
Good video, but the audio doesn't do the bird justice. These things can be loud, and because it's a low freq, the sound carries. Very cool bird. Thanks for the vid.
I needed this video! I live in Montana, and I never knew what those noises were til this video!
I lived near where there were alot of oil wells, and I always mistaked the noise for a oil well motor constantly starting up. Really cool sound.
I've heard this exact sound before! I had no idea it was. Yay now when I hear it again I can tell people it's a male ruffed grouse!
Just heard one of these guys for the first time yesterday - we thought it almost sounded like a helicopter starting really far away. It wasn't until we told my father in law what we kept hearing that he said no no it's a bird. So I had to come look it up .. so cool!!!
I work at a campsite in Canada. Some of us used to think our neighbours had a generator that they could never get going. Then we learned it was the birds. They make this sound extremely frequently
So glad I found this video. I almost took myself to the dr. For what I thought was a bizarre case of tinnitus - and my kid thought I was a bit crazy. But I recently moved to the woods and we have lots of grouse and I have been hearing this several times a day lately!
Gosh all this time out to my camp I thought I was hearing loggers starting their chain saws or boat motors echoing from the lake. I saw a strange partridge- type bird with white mottled down and a rooster topped head. Why, I thought I was seeing a roadrunner, but they could not be in Nova Scotia! My research led me here so now I learn I must have ruffled Grouse! Now my mind has been blown.
I was in the woods a half hour ago exploring and one started following me and I sat down and kept talking nice to it and it kept coming closer, eventually it hopped on my boot, 3 times
, It was one of the best things that's ever happened me. No joke
I have a video of one following my friend on foot and in his Polaris side-by-side. He talked to it and it followed him many times...many days. It would always be in the same place. It would walk with him and even eat out of his hand. It wouldn't come near me, though. I had to stay in the 4x4 filming. I think it saw me drooling.
Long story but true and fun.
The motorcycle by Joanna Anderson
When my husband and I parked the camper, the first night of the camping trip a young man drove by us on a dirt bike. I did not think anything about it. I figured he was camped on the other side of the campground. The campground at Aspen is shaped like a figure eight or the infinity symbol. We were parked at on end and we figured the mystery motercycle guy was parked on the other.
The next morning we kept hearing someone trying to start a moter and could not get it going. It sounded like every 10 minutes or so he would try again. That Tum Tum Tum that gets faster and faster then quits.
Paul and I were eating breakfast and discussing how that poor guy could not get his motercycle started. Paul said it sounded like it was not getting fire. We felt bad for the guy cause we know it must be a pain to come all the way out here and not be able to ride the trails due to mechanical issues. Paul said he might have a bottle of starting fluid and we could take it over there and see if it was a fule or fire issue maybe help the guy out.
Well we thought about it and decided to leave well enough alone and go for our hike for the day. You know that reluctance to get involved in other peoples problems?
We got back and had lunch and heard that Tum Tum Tumming yet again and this time it sounded like he got it started for a minute. Both of us looked at each other as if to say hay I think he got it. Then it died again.
We discussed walking around the campground and offering help again but put it off. Later we took a walk and found that we were quite alone in the campground. Dirt bike man must have called it quits and gone home.
Later after dinner we hear the moter try to start again. Paul stood up and said where is that coming from. We walked toward the sound then we heard it again coming from back toward our own trailor. What the heck!. Paul said maybe it has been the pump on the water system on our own trailer the whole time. We listened carfully all around the toy hauler then from far away we heard the moter running yet again.
Then we were off on the adventure of finding the noise. There was a big metal lid of some kind the foresty service had used to cover an old well or something. It was cordened off in the woods and had a danger sign near it. I suggested the moter might be down there. A pump or something? It sounded rational to me. Paul was not convenced. We walked down the road a ways thinking it might be someone in a nearby cabin. We found nothing really. Then we hear it again sounding close and loud. What the heck is it and where is that sound coming from. I guessed again. Maybe the sound it traveling down the valley from far away and it is some kind of trick of nature or Echo.
I had Paul time it. We timed about 3 minutes beween the noise. We were cosing in maybe. Paul was starting to get aggitated looking for the source. He heard it again and rushed into a thicket as he rushed in this rushed out.
Ruffed Grouse
That is HILARIOUS! That really does sound like a motor!
I'm sitting here chuckling reading your story.
Moved to the Adirondacks and saw my first Grouse today!!
I remember camping in southwestern Alberta and falling asleep to the sound of these drummers and thinking it was some sort of a water pump starting. Once I knew what the sound was I started looking for them on logs and saw the grouse in action. It is so cool to see and hear. Now we live next to the forest and have ruffed grouse living in our backyard all winter. There are plenty of logs back there but I've never heard one drum. They seem to disappear in the spring and return in the fall.
In Minnesota I hear them all the time
Heard this today. I could feel the vibrations in the ground all around me. Nearly gave me a heart attack as I thought an animal was charging me but I couldn't tell from where.
Pennsylvania's state bird!
1st one I heard was in Lovells, MI, so I thought I was hearing artillery. lol
The first time my bosses wife heard one, she thought was having a stroke. I can see how she would think that, because it does really pound your eardrums until you feel it in your head and your chest.
Mystery finally solved! I have been hearing the thumping noise out in the woods surrounding our property and was thinking it was jack rabbits thumping, but spotted a grouse this evening and found your link when I was looking for the sound they make when they cry...and lo and behold I find the thumping is caused by a male grouse...fascinating and thank you!
I loved hearing this in the woods when I was a young man...
what a great lesson on this bird.
I remember when I first heard this in the woods before I knew what it was. I tried to describe it to a few people hoping to find out and I always explained it stating, 'you know those old engines you see at the country fairs? it sounds like that'
We have so many here no joke they hand on our porch an property there so cool
My parents lived in Bland Virginia and I’d spend a lot of time in the forest there looking for bones and exploring. I’d always hear this motor sound like a generator. I immediately thought it was someone cooking moonshine or meth in the woods. When I’d walk towards this motor sound there’d always be nothing there and it would stop. It was the strangest thing. This happened at least six times. So a few years later I get the idea to Google “strange motor sound in woods” and this bird called a grouse kept coming up so I UA-cam searched it and that was the sound!!! I never would have thought it was a bird because the only thing it sounded like was man-made in everything I knew about nature at the time. So fascinating and cool to have my years long mystery final solved. And I learned I wasn’t crazy and the sound was very much real. Lol
Only GOD could create such a beautiful creature.
The low vocals permeate through your whole body. Your right, you feel it more that hear it.
Chrome, you are hearing the drumming from a male ruffed grouse we have lots here in Algoma.
Play safe from Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Life is a gift.
Okay. Pretty straight forward. The sound this Ruffed Grouse makes sounds like when you have a bouncy ball and you drop it from a high point. It bounces, but it loses altitude every bounce, until it does that frantic multiple bouncing in seconds thing. It's hardd to explain, but for those of you guys who get what I mean, well on ya!
I was hearing this sound for years, and I could never figure out what they were until just recently when a friend told me what the sound was.
For years I thought I was losing my mind. Why did I hear this sound like a heartbeat at the pace of a lawnmower every morning talking the dog out? Now I know
Thanks for the information. Hopefully it helps me find more for my dinner table.
I've heard this after mowing the lawn maybe they think my mower is another grouse😂
I stepped out of my camping cabin in Yosemite and run into a Ruffed Grouse in front of me . Looking at me
While hunting for moose always heard this... always thought it was a diesel engine trying to start but failed to start. Happy to know what it is now.
Is this gex?
Hell yeah man
The Seventh Man by Max Brand brought me here. I had to know what he meant when he talked about this call of the wild grouse.
the sound like drum pedal I heard him through his bands
I come from europe and heared it often in the Yukon Territory. Very loud. I thought: What the hell is this? Like a motorcycle in the woods. Thank you! Now In know. 😀
i was wonderig what that sound was in my woods :l
I always thought there was a bear struggling to start his quad in the bushes...lol
I think what your looking for is "subsonic". And no they do not actually beat there wings or at least not together. Their wings don't touch when they drum.
My spouse, and I was hunting. It sounded like frequency sounds in your head. Lol..
Now I can't get the thought out of my head of the sound of a lawn mower starting
cool vid! Thank youbitterns give a cool vibe like this too!
I've been in the woods hunting for years and ...literally thought that was someone miles away with some sort of weird moter ..this is crazy
You can walk right up on one when it’s drumming! Always stop before it does !
One fall evening some years ago at Meacham Lake in the Adirondacks, I came upon a large ruffed grouse comfortably camouflaged in the dead leaves. I was scarcely 3 feet away when he abruptly turned his head, stood up, and began to beat: thum, thum, thum, thum-thum-thum-thum-thum!... But it was done all with his tail feathers against the ground, not with his wings. Of course I was witnessing an alarm, not a mating display. Aa he made no attempt to fly, I said, "So long, mister!" and went my way.
Hermosos videos... !!!
Cool 😎
The first bird in the world to incorporate stock Slip-on Carbon Akrapovič exhaust.
Amazing
Can't wait for September!
Kept hearing this noise in the back 40 when checking on my marijuana plants and I always thought the neighbour had some special generator that started up for a second and then turn off, also thought it sounded like a old diesel tractor starting up but not running..
Also thought it was noises in my body from over working with the heat
I love grouses🐔
I was beaten up by a ruffed grouse when I was 10 yrs old squirell hunting.He came from behind me and I was wearing an orange vest so my dad could keep my whereabouts known.I didn't figure out what it was until I was a grown man.I told my dad I was attacked by a chicken!
Nice
I’ve always thought this sounds like a far off water pump or generator starting up in the woods. I’ve also been lucky enough to find a drumming log once…….do they go back to them year after year?
We have them here and I think it sounds like a motor trying to start and then the motor dies. 😂
I heard this recently and thought it was a mountain lion growl. Scared the piss out of me
Wow
Right so, any chance we can see it?
Where are the bird noises, This is just a personal manifesto about hearing sounds
sounds like an old subaru
Greater Roadrunners make a weird drumming sound when approached too . It is also more felt than heard .
Kept hearing this sound all the afternoon yesterday while deer hunting in Highland county, Virginia (02 December 2017)
Do they do it all year around or during a certain (mating?) period only?
It sounds li like a tractor starting up I always thought
Do they make a loud deep barking noise?
mayhem silvester anfang plays in the distance.
First time I've heard it I thought of some insane energy weapon testing was going on in the area! Crazy, I know, but the way these are felt inside of your head makes you think funny
Ack! Now I want a muffler chicken!
This bird has better chops than me!
Thank you very much! One question: Why don't you use video instead of photos or in combination with video?
Love hunting theses birds great eating and just all out fun great time of yr.
Hi
Drum solo!!!!
the thumping i describe as a helicopter starting and stalling just as it starts
I don't know about shy i have a male follwing me around everyday like it's trying to tell me something it runs rite up to me when i go out in the morning he comes within 2 or 3 feet i thought maybe he can't fly but that's not the case he flies fine if someone else is with me like my wife or anyone else he don't come that close maybe 10 ft he's been doing this for a month now so...strange I've never seen anything like it any idea's ? Please feel free I'd appreciate some feed back thanks.
.... and!... sounds like a smooth "Cruiser Motorcycle"!.....In the sense!....(N. O.)!....?!...☕👌📕😐📖📄
you can feel that thump on your skin and cloths
Grouse looks like a coo bird
You are obviously not a hunter, I've seen/heard them drumming alot of times while out for turkey
Always sounded like a door stop to me Haha