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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dendragapus
- Mass
- 839
- Image
- Dendragapus obscurus NPS.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Dendragapus obscurus
- Commons category
- Dendragapus obscurus
- Commons gallery
- Dendragapus obscurus
- taxon common name
- tetraz-sombrio
- short name
- D. obscurus
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Encyclopedic overview
The dusky grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to the Rocky Mountains in North America. It is closely related to the sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus), and the two were previously considered a single species, the blue grouse.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dusky Grouse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.