willow grouse

British  

noun

1. a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse ( L. lagopus scoticus ) of Britain

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Example Sentences

I guess that's why it's called the fool hen, though its proper name is the willow grouse.

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It was larger than the willow grouse.

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A packer shot some willow grouse and they made broth, and Stannard put away the party's small stock of liquor and canned delicacies for his use.

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Sometimes one can knock down a little willow grouse with a stick, but the willow grouse had recently vanished and the Indian had caught nothing in his snares.

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There are two kinds of birds known as ryper in Norway—the fjeld or skarv ryper, which is, we think, identical with our ptarmigan; and the dal or skog ryper, which we believe to be the same bird as the willow grouse of North America.

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