Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies
Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters
Date of this Version
2016
Document Type
Article
Citation
Grouse News 51-60 (2016-2020)
Published by the IUCN/SSC Galliformes Specialist Group
Alternate title: Grouse News: Newsletter of the Grouse Group of the IUCN/SSC Galliformes Specialist Group
Abstract
Issue 51 (May 2016)
From the Editor
From the Chair of the Grouse Group and from the Galliformes Specialist Group
Research Reports
Our view: Greater sage-grouse habitat restoration: Sound science or wishful thinking?
Grouse News
Developing an Index to Sooty Grouse Abundance in Western Oregon, USA
Dusky and sharp-tailed grouse project starting near Clinton, BC addressing the effects of biosolids on grouse behavior and diet
Grouse research in North America: revisiting the forgotten forest grouse
New national survey of capercaillie in Scotland
Conferences 6th International Symposium on Galliformes 2016
The 16th NKV Congress
The 33rd IUGB and 14th Perdix Congress, Montpellier, France August 22-25, 2017
IUCN World conservation congress 2016
Abstracts from 13th IGS Oral presentations
Genetics: Abstracts 515-518, 602-606
Management and conservation: Abstracts 607-617, 701-721
Poster presentations
Genetics: Abstracts 536-539
Management and conservation: Abstracts 540-553
Recent grouse literature
Snippets
Grouse Group in search of Website Editor
Issue 52 (December 2016)
From the Editor
From the Chair
News from the Galliformes Specialist Group
Research Reports
Overview of a Workshop to Expand the Use of Emerging Technology to Understand the Ecology of Grouse in a Changing Climate
Use of camera traps to record activity on sage-grouse leks
Project in progress: the impact of wind turbines on capercaillie
New Books
The North American Grouse, their biology and behavior
Conferences
The 33rd International Union of Game Biologists Congress: 14th Perdix Symposium
Summary of talks on grouse for 3 conferences
Recent grouse literature
Issue 53 (May 2017)
From the Editor
From the Chair
News from the Galliformes Specialist Group
Research Reports
The edge also matters: Human threats in a rare Mediterranean habitat for Cantabrian capercaillie
The 10 main results of the LIFE+ Cantabrian Capercaillie Project
Investigating the relative effects of predation, from crows (Corvus corone), and inter-specific competition, from black grouse (Tetrao tetrix), on capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) population dynamics
Swedish Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) in the Netherlands
Utah Forest Grouse Research Project
Projected future bioclimate-envelope suitability for bird species in south central USA
Project Update: The Effects of Conifer Encroachment and Removal on Greater Sage-Grouse
WHAT the HECK is a Lek?
Project in progress: The use of bioacoustics to improve rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) spring counts in the French Alps and Pyrenees
Conferences
Trends of modern population dynamics, and the ecology of forest grouses in Eurasia
The 2017 Prairie Grouse Technical Council meeting
The 14th International Grouse Symposium
Recent grouse literature
Issue 54 (December 2017)
From the Editor
From the Chair
Research Reports Restoring sharp-tailed grouse to western Montana: MSU graduate students evaluate restoration potential and develop recovery recommendations
A possible impact of anthropogenic noise on male lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance in Kansas
Evaluating the influence of habitat structure on the movement rates of gallinaceous chicks
A reply on the 10 main results of the LIFE+ Cantabrian Capercaillie Project
Open questions in sound production of Siberian grouse Falcipennis falcipennis Hartlaub 1855
Climate change and bird reproduction: warmer springs benefit breeding success in boreal forest grouse
Conferences
Grouse Presentations at the Wildlife Society Conference in Albuquerque, September 23-27, 2017
Grouse Presentations at the Prairie Grouse Technical Council Conference in Dickinson, North Dakota, October 17-19, 2017
International Grouse Symposium 2018, Logan, Utah, United States
Recent grouse literature
In memoriam: Vidar Marcström 1924 -2017
Issue 55 (May 2018)
From the Editor
From the Chair
News from the Galliformes Specialist Group
Conservation News
Cairngorms Capercaillie Framework HLF Bid: Summary of proposal
Research Reports
Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) parasitism of a greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) nest in Nebraska
Evaluating Greater prairie-chicken vocalizations: Assessing variation in lek vocalizations at an existing wind energy facility in Nebraska
Female Cantabrian capercaillie dead by collision with wind turbine
Does transforming geographical axes to climatic ones give new insights into the spatial distribution of the two capercaillie species (Tetrao urogallus, T. parvirostris)?
Movement, survival, and nest monitoring of rock ptarmigan in Game Management Unit 13B, 2013– 2017R
The importance of individual heterogeneity for interpreting faecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in wildlife studies
Conferences The 14th International Grouse Symposium
Biology, ecology and protection of Galliformes in Poland and Europe
Recent grouse literature
In memoriam: David Archibald Boag: January 24, 1934 –December 6, 2017
Issue 56 (December 2018)
From the Editor
From the Chair
News from the Galliformes Specialist Group
Conferences
International Grouse Symposium 1978-2018
14th International Grouse Symposium Logan, Utah, USA 2018
East fieldtrip
West fieldtrip
Post-conference fieldtrip
The 33rd Prairie Grouse Technical Council Meeting
The 15th International Grouse Symposium
Abstracts from 14th IGS
Plenary talks
Invited
Anthropogenic
Management
Resource selection
Population dynamics
Grouse ecology
Banquet
Oral presentations
Anthropogenic
Management
Resource selection
Population dynamics
Grouse ecology
Banquet
Poster presentations
Books
Sage Grouse, icon of the west
Save the last dance: A story of the American grassland grouse
Recent grouse literature
Snippets
Validation of stable isotope and scat analysis for determining dietary proportions and trophic dynamics in plains sharp-tailed grouse
The Cairngorms Capercaillie Project
In memoriam: Dr. John E. Toepfer, 1948-2018
Issue 57 (May 2019)
From the Editor
From the Chair
Research Reports
The Caucasian Black Grouse in Azerbaijan
Plant-derived food resources of Japanese rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta japonica) identified by DNA barcoding using rbcL local database constructed from alpine plants found in the Japan’s Northern Alps
Use of sedation to reduce stress during handling and transportation of the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) as a model for wild galliformes
Conservation of Spruce Grouse: Population Viability, Population Management, and Management of Habitat in Lowland Boreal Forests of New York
Conferences
Modern Trends of Population Dynamics and Ecology of Forest Eurasian Tetraonids
New Books
Le Grand Tétras
Recent grouse literature
In memoriam: Fred C. Zwickel, 1926–2018
Issue 58 (December 2019)
From the Editor
From the Chair
Conservation News Sage-Grouse Population Declines: Species in Crisis and Agencies in Denial
Research Reports
Dramatic decline of the Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus population in the Black Forest
The impact of wind energy facilities on grouse: a systematic review
Annual change in forest grouse in southern Norway: variation explained by temperatures, bilberry seed production and the lunar nodal phase cycle
Do snow depth and interspecific competition stabilise the sympatric zone of capercaillies (Tetrao urogallus and T. parvirostris)? Hypothesis
Habitat selectivity of tetraonid birds in the “Bryansky Les” Nature Reserve (southwest Russia) in autumn
The mating time of the capercaillie in the Pyrenees and the Jura become earlier and earlier
Roosting trees constrain hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia) winter occurrence in the Swiss Prealps
First reported case of a mad male hazel grouse in the wild
Modelling future wildlife habitat suitability: Serious climate change impacts on the potential distribution of the rock ptarmigan Lagopus muta japonica in Japan’s northern Alps
Conferences
Grouse Talks at the Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada: September 30–October 3, 2019
33rd Biennial Prairie Grouse Technical Council Meeting, November 4-7, 2019, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Recent grouse literature
Researchers and their Best Friend Assistants Bird Dogs in Grouse Research
Issue 59 (May 2020)
From the Editor
From the Chair
News from the Galliformes Specialist Group
News from the Grouse Group Conservation News
Status of southern white-tailed ptarmigan
California and Nevada sage-grouse will not be listed under ESA
Research Reports
Very old capercaillies recorded in the Northern Alps
Greater prairie-chicken reproductive failure following extreme precipitation events
Description of the parasitic community of mountain Galliformes in the Italian Alps: A large scale and long-term monitoring
Validation of stable isotope analysis for determining dietary proportions and trophic dynamics in plains sharp-tailed grouse
Conferences
The 15th International Grouse Symposium Białystok, Poland 2021
New Books
The Moorland Balance
Recent grouse literature
Researchers and their Best Friend Assistants
Canines as biodetectors for conservation work
Snippets
Capercaillie and black grouse on stamps
Ring-necked Pheasant on a Sharp-tailed Grouse lek
In memoriam: Adam Watson: April 14, 1930–January 24, 2019
In memoriam: James Francis Bendell, 1926–2020
Issue 60 (December 2020)
From the Editor
From the Chair
News from the Galliformes Specialist Group News from the Grouse Group Conservation News Research Reports
Long-term trends of hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia in the Bohemian Forest (Šumava), Czech Republic, 1972-2019
Evaluation of 10 years Black Forest capercaillie action plan: Declining population trend and deficits in the implementation of conservation measures
The impact of wind turbines on capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus): Summary of an international research project
Decline of the boreal willow grouse (Lagopus lagopus) has been accelerated by more frequent snow-free springs
Grounds for improving the implementation of game-oriented forest management: A double sampling survey of Finnish forest owners and professionals
Fall diet in sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesi) and consumption of the grasshopper Melanoplus dawsoni in Alberta, Canada
Prairie Grouse Population Trends and their Historical Drivers in the Nebraska Sandhills
Conferences
Grouse presentations at 2020 Wildlife Society Conference
Grouse presentations at 2020 North American Ornithological Conference
34th Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council – October 4-9, 2021
The 15th IGS in 2021 is postponed 35 New Books 36 Auerhühner & Co. Heimliche Vögel in wilder Natur
Recent grouse literature
Researchers and their Best Friend Assistants
Pointing dogs and grouse: A narrative
Snippets
Grouse on stamps
In memoriam: Harto Lindén, December 19, 1948-April 4, 2020
In memoriam: Arthur Norman Lance
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