Partridge, Pheasants, Grouse, Turkeys and Quail

Species Index to The Loon

Families

Loons
Grebes, Pelicans, Cormorants and Frigatebirds
Bitterns, Herons, Ibis and Storks
Whistling-Ducks, Swans and Geese
Ducks and Mergansers
Vultures, Osprey, Kites, Bald Eagle, Harriers and Accipiters
Hawks, Golden Eagle, Caracaras and Falcons
Partridge, Pheasants, Grouse, Turkeys and Quail
Rails, Coots and Cranes
Plovers, Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Jaegers
Gulls
Terns, Alcids, Doves, Parakeets, Cuckoos and Anis

Owls
Nighthawks, Poorwills, Swifts, Hummingbirds and Kingfishers
Woodpeckers
Flycatchers
Larks, Swallows, Jays, Crows, Chickadees and Creepers
Wrens, Dippers, Kinglets and Gnatcatchers
Wheatears, Thrushes, Mimics and Thrashers
Wagtails, Pipits, Waxwings, Shrikes, Starlings and Vireos
Warblers
Tanagers, Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings and Dickcissel
Towhees, Sparrows, Longspurs and Snow Bunting
Blackbirds, Meadowlarks and Orioles
Finches and Weaver Finches

Species: Partridge, Pheasants, Grouse, Turkeys and Quail

Gray Partridge
[Chukar]
Ring-necked Pheasant
Spruce Grouse

Willow Ptarmigan
Ruffed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Sharp-tailed Grouse

Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite

Gray Partridge (Perdix perdix)
	A	The Hungarian Partridge in Minnesota	1930	2:4
	A	Unusual Pheasant Nests from Minnesota	1943	15:29-31
	N	Hungarian Partridge Courtship	1951	23:19
	A	Factors Contributing to the Increase of the Gray Partridge in Minnesota	1977	49:205-210
	NP	Feeding Behavior of Gray Partridge	1984	56:73

[Chukar (Alectoris chukar)]
	A	Chukar Partridge in Minnesota	1938	10:3-5
	N	The Chukar Partridge (Alectoris graeca) at Ely, Minnesota	1955	27:94
	N	The Chukar in Minnesota	1960	32:64
	A	Proceedings of the Minnesota Ornithological Records Committee	1983	55:41-43

Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
	A	Unusual Pheasant Nests from Minnesota	1943	15:29-31
	A	Effects of a Hail Storm on Pheasants and Other Wildlife	1945	17:46-50
	N	Plumage Reversal in the Ring-necked Pheasant	1946	18:42-43
	A	Minnesota's Most Important Game Bird: The Pheasant. Facts and Figures on Pheasant Studies 1939-1950	1951	23:23-49
	N	An Observation of Pheasants	1953	25:80-81
	N	Cooper's Hawk Preying Upon a Winter Pheasant Flock	1956	28:164
	NP	Broken Pheasant Wing Mends	1957	29:128
	N	Marsh Hawk-Ring-necked Pheasant Encounter	1959	31:104
	A	Experimental Marking and Dyeing of Ring-necked Pheasants	1960	32:43-45
	NP	An Unusual Type of Ring-necked Pheasant Wound	1961	33:24
	N	Rough-legged Hawk Attempts to Kill Pheasants	1965	37:50
	A	Pheasant Brood Observations	1966	38:136-138
	AP	Effects of a Severe Winter Blizzard on Pheasants	1967	39:82-85
	N	Red-tailed Hawk Kills Pheasant Chick	1967	39:109
	N	Instinctive Response to Danger by Pheasants	1968	40:101
	A	Food Habits of Minnesota Pheasants	1969	41:119-123
	N	Red-tailed Hawk Attacks Pheasant	1972	44:56
	NP	Super Clutch, Poor Hatch, in Ring-necked Pheasant Nest at Duluth, Minnesota	1981	53:57

Spruce Grouse (Dendragapus canadensis)
	A	Some Notes on the Spruce Grouse	1929	1:37-38
	N	Spruce Grouse at Grand Rapids, Minnesota	1939	11:21
	N	Canada Spruce Grouse Along the Gunflint Trail	1941	13:18
	N	Notes on Fall Drumming of Ruffed Grouse and Distribution of Spruce Grouse	1944	16:33
	N	Spruce Grouse Feeds on Mink Frog	1978	50:207
	NP	Spruce Grouse Display	1979	51:152-153
	A	A Spruce Grouse Record from Pine County	1982	54:200-202
	A	Proceedings of the Minnesota Ornithological Records Committee	1983	55:41-43
	NP	Male Spruce Grouse Displays	1989	61:39-41

Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
	A	Winter Notes from Roseau County	1934	6:14
	N	Willow Ptarmigan in Lake of the Woods County	1964	36:66

Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)
	A	Ruffed Grouse in the Limelight	1934	6:66-67
	A	Grouse Observations	1938	10:14(26)
	A	A Submarginal Population of Ruffed Grouse	1941	13:7-9
	N	Ruffed Grouse Victims of Snowstorm	1941	13:19
	N	Ruffed Grouse Census	1941	13:20
	N	Unusual Additions to the University Museum Collection	1942	14:16
	N	Occurrence of Ruffed Grouse in Southeastern Minnesota	1943	15:54-55
	N	Notes on Fall Drumming of Ruffed Grouse and Distribution of Spruce Grouse	1944	16:33
	N	Behavior of the Ruffed Grouse	1944	16:84
	A	Cover Type Use of the Ruffed Grouse in Relation to Forest Management on the Cloquet Forest Experiment Station, Part I	1949	21:29-44
	A	Cover Type Use of the Ruffed Grouse in Relation to Forest Management on the Cloquet Forest Experiment Station, Part II	1949	21:73-85
	AP	The Ruffed Grouse as a Snake Eater	1953	25:2-3
	N	Ruffed Grouse Eats Garter Snake	1953	25:47
	N	Ruffed Grouse Brood in Fillmore County	1956	28:43
	AP	The Ruffed Grouse Drums	1959	31:14-15
	NP	Garter Snake Eating by the Ruffed Grouse	1960	32:99
	A	Fluctuations in the Ruffed Grouse Population of the Thunder Bay District, Ontario	1964	36:74-83
	NP	Ruffed Grouse Cached by Raptor	1965	37:88
	A	The Obituary of "Old Gray-tail"	1966	38:132-134
	N	Owl and Grouse Seemingly Try to Outdo Each Other as Noisemakers	1971	43:59-60
	N	Ruffed Grouse in Hennepin County	1975	47:143
	N	More on Ruffed Grouse in Hennepin County	1976	48:122
	A	A Nesting Study of Ruffed Grouse at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota	1978	50:25-30
	A	Growth and Behavior of Ruffed Grouse Chicks	1978	50:106-112
	N	An Experience with a Ruffed Grouse	1980	52:37-38
	A	The Impact of Goshawk Predation Upon Ruffed Grouse	1981	53:82-84
	AP	"Tame" Ruffed Grouse!	1981	53:101-103
	N	An Exceptionally Late Brood of Ruffed Grouse	1982	54:185
	A	A Remnant Grouse Population	1988	60:10-11
	N	Ruffed Grouse Survives Collision with Fence Post	1988	60:92

Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)
	N	Possible Recent Occurrence of Prairie Chicken in Dodge County, Minnesota	1955	27:132
	N	Strange Actions of a Pinnated Grouse	1956	28:165
	AP	"Booming"	1959	31:124-125
	N	Prairie Grouse Distribution in Minnesota	1960	32:60-61
	N	Greater Prairie Chickens in Wadena County, Minnesota	1960	32:66
	A	Nesting Distribution of the Greater Prairie Chicken and Sharp-tailed Grouse	1960	32:69
	N	Greater Prairie Chickens in Hennepin County	1964	36:135-136
	A	Prairie Chicken Exodus: Notes on the Prairie Chicken in Central Minnesota	1970	42:5-19
	N	Interaction Between Greater Prairie Chickens and Marsh Hawk	1974	46:42
	N	Prairie Chicken Killed by Goshawk	1975	47:191-192
	N	Prairie Chicken Inventory, 1977	1977	49:228
	N	Prairie Chicken Inventory, 1978	1978	50:178
	N	Prairie Chicken Inventory, 1979	1980	52:42
	N	Goshawk Kills Prairie Chicken on Booming Ground in Northwest Minnesota	1981	53:112-113
	N	Prairie Chicken Inventory, 1981	1981	53:229
	A	A Remnant Flock of Greater Prairie Chickens in North Central Minnesota	1982	54:5-13
	N	Prairie Chickens -- Marshall County	1982	54:245
	N	Greater Prairie Chicken Survey, 1983	1983	55:121
	N	Prairie Chicken in Big Stone County	1984	56:134-135
	N	Summary of 1980-1984 Minnesota Prairie Chicken Inventory Data by County	1984	56:202

Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)
	A	Grouse Observations	1938	10:14(26)
	A	A New Tip-Top Trap for Taking Prairie Grouse	1955	27:123-125
	A	Sharp-tailed Grouse in Minnesota	1957	29:92-94
	AP	"Sharptails"	1960	32:16-17
	N	Prairie Grouse Distribution in Minnesota	1960	32:60-61
	A	Nesting Distribution of the Greater Prairie Chicken and Sharp-tailed Grouse	1960	32:69
	A	Sharp-tailed Grouse Management Problems in the Great Lakes States: Does the Sharp-tail have a Future?	1990	62:42-45
	N	Peregrine Falcon Preys on Sharp-tailed Grouse at Lek	1990	62:230
	N	Northern Goshawk Predation on Sharp-tailed Grouse	1991	63:74
	A	Proceedings of the Minnesota Ornithological Records Committee	1992	64:138-140

Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
	A	Wild Turkeys in Minnesota	1961	33:34-37
	N	Another Minnesota Turkey Record	1962	34:28
	N	Possible Turkey in Stevens County	1966	38:109-110
	N	Attempt to Establish Wild Turkeys in Otter Tail County	1971	43:59
	A	Current Status of the Wild Turkey in Southeastern Minnesota	1973	45:49-50
	N	Wild Turkeys of the Whitewater	1976	48:36

Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
	A	The Quail in Minnesota	1929	1:33-34
	N	A Quail Brood Near Weaver	1956	28:42
	N	Observations in Martin and Watonwan Counties -- Bobwhite	1962	34:29-30
	A	Minnesota's Bobwhite Quail	1964	36:60-61
	NP	Bobwhite Quail Observation	1969	41:93
	N	Bobwhite Observation in Winona	1970	42:38
	N	Bobwhite in Rock County	1981	53:167-168

Notes:

Each entry to the index is preceded with a code, which denotes one of the following:

A
AP
N
NP
-- the reference is a major or minor article
-- the reference is a major or minor article and is accompanied by a photograph
-- the reference is a Note of Interest
-- the reference is a Note of Interest and is accompanied by a photograph

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