ruffed

How to use ruffed in a sentence

• I'm not going to stand here palavering all day, with my feathers up like a ruffed grouse.

  Little Folks (November 1884) | Various

• The ruffed grouse sometimes buds in an orchard near the woods, and thus takes the farmer's apple crop a year in advance.

  A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs

• I have heard the hairbird, and the note of the kingbird; and the ruffed grouse frequently drums at night.

  A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs

• About Victoria there were found, he said, two species of grouse,—the ruffed grouse and the blue grouse.

  Jack the Young Canoeman | George Bird Grinnell

• Unseen amid his dun and gray environment, the ruffed grouse skulks unheard, till he bursts away in thunderous flight.

  In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. Robinson