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Vocabulary
• Alfalfa: A perennial, leguminous herb used as forage and hay.
• Catkins: A drooping, spike or raceme on flowers that lack petals,
eaten by some species of birds.
• Comb: Fleshy crest or area on the heads of some birds.
• Legumes: A family of plants with many valuable food and forage
species, such as peas, soybeans, and peanuts.
• Monogamous: Having only one mate.
• Roosts: Area or place where birds rest; particularly at night.
• Sagebrush: Herb-like, bushy plants, native to the western and
southwestern United States.
• Spurs: A bony protuberance on the lower leg of some birds; used as
a weapon by males during territory or breeding disputes.
Turkey
• (tom) weigh 18-25lbs
• toms have a bigger
body with more color
in there tail they also
have a beard
• hens don’t have bright
colors like the toms
they also don’t have
spurs
• (hens) weigh 10-16lbs
with brown to tan
colors
Hungarian Partridge
Perdix perdix
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Also know as the gray partridge.
It is not native to Wisconsin, it
originated in Czechoslavakia.
They are 12-14 inches in length
and weigh nearly one pound.
The feathers are brown and gray
and the chest is a chestnut and
white colored breast.
Birds are usually found in coveys.
They prefer open areas, farmlands,
and brush.
They eat various small plants,
seeds, insects, and some
agricultural vegetation.
Bobwhite Quail
• Red brown color with darker
spots and scaling and lighter
bellies
• Males have a distinctive white
throat and narrow white bands
from the beak back over the
eyes
• They prefer to live on Field
edges particularly where
cropland meets grassland
• Young Quail feed on insects
Adult Quail feed on weed seeds
and insects
• They are a large bird. Mottled
pale brown with some black
spots. Their bellies are a lighter
colored then the rest of their
bodies. They have a long tail.
They are about 17inches in
length.
• They can be found in the
Midwest and Canada.
Grasslands, prairies, brush, and
woodlands.
• They eat a variety of plants,
insects, fruits, seeds, and grains
Morning Dove
• 10 to 13 in.
• 3.5 to 5 ounces
• Slate gray in color, with a
buff, pinkish breast and
belly. Black spots on back
and sides.
• Found everywhere.
• Eat sunflowers, and grains
• Live 6 to 9 years
Chukar
• 10 inches in length, Stocky,
ground-dwelling quail with
short, rounded wings, short
thick red bill, red eye ring,
black band above bill through
the eye and across the upper
neck, white belly red legs and
feet
• introduced from Europe and in
many western states like
Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Wyoming, western
Colorado, and eastern
California
Chukar
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Live in bare rocky slopes, talus
slopes, bluffs, cliffs, and rocky
outcroppings.
They eat seeds and leaves of
cheatgrass, also eat leaves of alfalfa
and sweet clover
female lays on egg every day or
two until her clutch is complete.
Clutch size varies from 10 to more
than 20 eggs. Incubation takes
about 24 days, and the hen leads
the chicks away from the nest as
soon as they are dry.
Gambles Quail
• Another of the crested of
plumed quails.
• Males have a prominent black,
forward-curving plume atop a
reddish-brown cap.
• Found in in the desert of
southwest
• feed on a wide variety of
legume and weed seeds. Seeds,
leave, flowers.
Willow Ptarmigan
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Widespread in the Arctic tundra
regions of North America.
Plump, stocky grouse, about 15
inches in length.
Feathers covering feet in winter.
Change colors with the changing
seasons
Reddish brown during summer,
white in the winter. Males have red
eye combs during breeding season.
Feed on buds of willow, birch, and
alder. Also consumes insects and
fruits during the summer.
Blue Grouse
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17inches
medium-sized,stocky,round
winged,chicken-like. Long squarish
tail
adult male has a yellow to orange
comb over the eye. Yellow or
purple-red neck sac.
No migration, permanent residence.
Breeding habitat: woodland
Clutch size:6-9
Incubation: 25-26 days
mainly eats plant matter,also eats
insects.
Blue Grouse
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Adult female has brown plumage
with dark brown and white marking
to under parts. Brown tail with
grayish terminal band.
Live in conifer forests from
southern Yukon to southern
Alaska. Also in western states.
Ruffed Grouse
• Ruffed grouse are 1617 inches long.
• They have a red phase,
the upper areas are a
reddish-brown, and
it’s breast and belly is
gray.
• They prefer a wide
variety of dense
deciduous and
coniferous forests
Ruffed Grouse
• They eat greenbriar,
sumac, and buds of
apples, willow, and
wild cherry.
• Ruffed grouse chicks,
survive mainly of
insects.
Scaled Quail
• Known as the blue quail
• Common nickname is
“Cottontop”
• Top of crest is white on males
and off-white on females.
• Sandy brown to gray color
• Feathers have black trim.
• Have a scaled appearance
• 10-11 inches in length 2 ounces
• Found primarily in deserts and
brush of the southeast
• Feeds mainly on insects and
seeds
SAGE GROUSE
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Length 22 inches
Large rounded- winged, grounddwelling, chicken bird
Long, pointed tail
Immature similar to adult female but
paler
Legs are feathered to base of toes
Migration is permanent resident
Breeding habitat is successful- scrub
Incubation length is 25-27 days
Eats green plants, flowers, insects and
seeds
Found in Southwestern Colorado and
Southeastern Utah
Mountain Quail
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Largest quail in north America
11 inches in length and have a long,
straight plume on top of the head.
Male have a dark rust patch with
reddish brown wings. Females are
duller in color.
Mostly in western areas like brush
thickets, dense forests,and mountain
meadows
they eat mostly grasses, legumes, and
Forbes,and they also eat fruits
they Range from northern Baja
California up to the west coast to
northern Washington,and into Oregon
Rock Ptarmigan
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Looks like a small grouse or pheasant; adults
are between 13 and 16 inches long. It has
pure white plumage in winter, except for a
black tail, All ptarmigans have feathered feet.
Adults are almost exclusive vegetarians, but
young chicks feed heavily on insects, spiders,
and snails.
The female incubates 7 to 10 eggs without
help from the male. Incubation typically lasts
21 days, and the downy chicks are able to
leave the nest within a day of hatching. The
female tends her young, but they feed
themselves, and are able to fly at about
10days. Chicks are independent at 10 to 12
weeks.
Brushy slopes near the timberline, where
vegetation pokes through snow.
California Quail
• The males have a black throat
and the females have
Woodcock
• Woodcock are
relatively small birds.
• They have long beak.
• Found in swamps,
lowland forests, and
upland thickets.
• Feed almost
exclusively on
earthworms.
Prairie Chickens
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• Hens lay about 12 eggs in a clutch. The eggs hatch
in 25 days.
• life span of 2 to 3 years.
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Two kinds of prairie chickens,
greater and lesser.
Greater is 17 inches. Lesser is
15-16 inches
Brownish, with black barring on
the sides and back.
The belly is buff colored, and
males have a yellow comb above
their eyes and yellow air sacs that
they inflate to show off.
Found throughout US. And a
few in Wisconsin.
Habitat is Native prairie
grasslands.
Eat grains, corn, sorghum,
wheat, and rye. Insects are also a
main source of food.
Pheasant
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Description: Weigh 2.5-3 pd’s, up
to 36 inches
Males have a dark glossy head with
reddish-brown tint, Females are
buff-colored looking with black
and brown, short-round wings,
Males have a long pointed tail
Habitat: Croplands, grasslands,
brushlands, grain crops, and
swamps
Feeding: Corn, seeds, wheat,
insects
Life Cycle:Mar.-April, hens lay 1
egg per day until 8-12eggs are laid
Other:American original, has lived
here for up to 100 yr.'s
Spruce Grouse
• 13 inches long,
medium sized with a
square tail and round
wings.
• Black throat with
white border
• Diet: almost
exclusively plant
matter
• Live in mixed wood
forests
• can live up to 13 years
old