Capercaillie

Tetrao urogallus
Pheasant like (Phasianidae)

♂ has a bold red eyebrow.
Capercaillieon RikenMon's Nature.Guide

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A large fowl, the ♂ is black with a blue-green shine on its breast and neck. Brown wings with white markings on its shoulder and tail. A white beak and a small patch of red skin over the eye. The long throat feathers look like a beard. The ♀ is brown-black marked with a red-brown breast and smaller.

Prefers mixed forest always including some pine, in mountainous areas. They eat pine needles if other food is scarce.

⇔ l. 60-100 cm

syn. Western Capercaillie, Wood Grouse, Heather Cock 

A resident bird.

LA:
≈ The LYRURUS TETRIX (Black grouse) is smaller and the ♂ has white under the tail.

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