Driven grouse shooting the potential capacity for the breeding golden eagle population continues to be suppressed around where this persecution largely occurs." Driven grouse shooting Driven grouse shooting is the hunting of the red grouse, a field sport of the United Kingdom. It is popular because it provides a challenge due to the rapid flight of the grouse. The grouse shooting season extends from 12 August, often called the "Glorious Twelfth", to 10 December each year. Shooting takes place on grouse moors, areas of moorland in northern England and Scotland. The name 'driven grouse shooting' refers to the way in which the grouse
Spruce grouse the way ruffed grouse do. In the first half of the century, spruce grouse were classified as two separate species in the genus "Canachites": spruce grouse ("C. canadensis") and Franklin's grouse ("C. franklinii"), a position reinstated by Birdlife International in 2014. Then the species were unified and moved to the genus "Dendragapus", congeneric with the blue grouse with which spruce grouse often share coniferous habitats. However, spruce grouse do not have inflatable cervical sacs as in blue grouse, and the natal plumage of the two species is different. Based on its stronger resemblance to the Siberian grouse ("Falcipennis falcipennis"), the