"Tame" Ruffed Grouse
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- An amazing "tame" grouse joins us on the road. This ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is exhibiting a very uncommon overly-territorial behavior that makes it bold enough to approach people. This type of behavior is quite rare, especially outside of the breeding season in the spring. Most ruffed grouse are extremely shy and are rarely seen.
I’m starting a GoFundMe to get this lad a miniature Kevlar vest for hunting season.
Sets record for the fastest funded project in GoFundMe history.
Best laugh of the day ....lol id make it for it lmbo
Where I live in rural Canada, rough grouse are absolutely everywhere. All along the trails and roads. I have a family of them in my yard at this moment, dumb little turds are slow as molasses and stand in the middle of the road!
Nice. I only usually see a couple a year when they spook and scare the bejebuz out of me.
I have the same experience with a Ruffed Grouse here in Down East Maine. I was cutting the lawn yesterday and he was following me wherever I went. Then again today he was in a shallow sand hole kicking up sand onto his body!
Sounds like a good old-fashioned dust bath. My chickens love doing that too!
Wow awsome video my friend he's so awsome much love bless ya 😇🙏👍🖐🤘❤
Such a beautiful bird, but it’s so upsetting to watch this. The bird really doesn’t want you there! You will just have to adopt it and maybe build it a little grouse house as a peace offering!
Perhaps she has young ones nearby & is being protective of them?
Maybe, but I think that it is usually males that do this.
This is a start of grouse domestication haha
Yes, I could definitely see that happening.
Oh my he's so cute. I love the soft little coos he makes. I see your shoes are shaped like a grouse walking away. So he thinks a rival is turning tail and he can go bite them in the back. I've never seen a ruffed grouse in real life only on documentaries. And always drumming. Ha never seen a normal deflated one.
Until a couple of months ago I had only had them scare me half to death when I'm walking through the woods and I happen to walk near one and it startles, but I have seen this one five or six times now and it runs right up to me.
Kind of looks like a chicken
Little guy is cute.. ..But he also looks delicious so maybe he needed you help about that :)
Lmbo
Ive never seen that before and ive seen many grouse but they always scare the out of me in the woods walking they fly up out of nowhere lol or that drum they make so cool little bitds
Grouse are great at waiting until you are practically standing on top of them to startle and scare the living bejeebuz out of you. Every prior encounter has been like that This one was really special. We saw it pretty consistently all summer long until November or so.
Thats a young grouse right tbere.
nothing stopping someone grabbing a tasty meal from it
More like a neighbor bought them to restock their property..which is the reason I found this video. Looking for ruffed grouse aviaries.
You are mistaken. This was a completely wild grouse. The behavior it's exhibiting is rare, but not something that hasn't been documented before. PA fish and game has a great video about it.
@@ClaussVideoArchive this behavior is rare, but not extremely rare. It happens infrequently with the different North American forest Grouse species - Ruffed Grouse, Blue Grouse, and Spruce Grouse. I had a male Blue Grouse chase me back and forth across a snow-covered field for an hour and 15 minutes in March of 2019. BTW, Ruffed Grouse do HORRIBLE in captivity, which is why it is almost impossible to acquire them to "stock" an area with them.
Any idea how he lost most of his tailfeathers?
Probably a close call with a coyote or dog, but can't say for sure. It looked like this all summer/fall.
Cool 😊
if you want a pet ruffed grouse get a domestic turkey, a different type of grouse or get a chickens since they similar to turkeys
I don't want a pet ruffed grouse. This is a wild bird and should remain wild.
@@ClaussVideoArchive i mean turkeys are grouses so get a pet turkey
Do you know why they do this??? This is happening here with my daughter (she’s 3) for 2 weeks now a ruffed grouse has been following her around. When she goes outside you can hear the Grouse running through the trees right to my daughter.
It will be across the property and as soon as it hears my daughter it comes running to her?
It’s bizarre.
It's a overly territorial thing that a small number of grouse have a difficult time processing. They become a little obsessive about it. It's a cool thing to be lucky see up close, but be careful with a three year old. Sometimes the grouse will jump at, peck, scratch the individual "invading" their space. Nothing too intense and I know it's just a little bird, but wouldn't want your girl to be on the receiving end of that. Enjoy it while it lasts. This one carried on all summer and through the fall until one day it just vanished.
@@ClaussVideoArchive it hasn’t shown any sort of aggression but yes we definitely keep our eye on it!
Thank-you, I was very curious.
Generically "fool hen" along with spruce grouse and similar species; fairly easy to hunt with specialized weapons like rocks.
How does your new dog like this video? Did its hunting instincts kick in?
@@ClaussVideoArchive Bailey doesn't seem to understand tv/videos. No reaction to dogs on tv for instance.
That's probably a sign of intelligence.
@@ClaussVideoArchive Bailey is a highly intelligent doggie! She chose us.