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Sharp-tailed Grouse
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species of medium-sized prairie grouse
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tympanuchus
- Mass
- 817
- Image
- Sharp-Tailed Grouse (26089894256) (cropped).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Tympanuchus phasianellus
- Commons category
- Tympanuchus phasianellus
- Commons gallery
- Tympanuchus phasianellus
- taxon common name
- tetraz-de-cauda-fina
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Encyclopedic overview
The sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus), also known as the sharptail or fire grouse, is a medium-sized prairie grouse. One of three species in the genus Tympanuchus, the sharp-tailed grouse is found throughout Alaska, much of Northern and Western Canada, and parts of the Western and Midwestern United States. The sharp-tailed grouse is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sharp-tailed Grouse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.