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At least a few times each year people in the forests of Pennsylvania encounter what they universally describe as a tame or friendly, ruffed grouse. The grouse - the state bird of Pennsylvania - is ...

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BRAINERD — It wasn’t what I was hoping to find as I wandered my property on a cold January day. Atop the snow lay a pile of feathers, grouse feathers to be exact. I knew the remains were that of Ruff, ...