How To Use Grouse In A Sentence
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In the first, the applicant S took part in a protest against a grouse shoot.
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I thought it dangerously late in the season for controlled heather burning, a real threat to ground nesting birds like red grouse and dunlin.
Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
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He gave us the recipe for the last of these, which can be made with salmon instead of wild duck or grouse.
A Passion for Food
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Entitled Aquila after the swooping eagle found in John Flamsteed's 1729 Atlas Coelestis, its merits do not really derive from any imitation of eagles actual or imagined perhaps luckily, given that Flamsteed's eagle resembles a grouse.
Chroma chamber ensemble – review
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Grouse will soon be in season again.
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Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland.
Learn to Draw Countryside
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Scouts never grouse at hardships nor whine at each other, nor_ swear _when put out, but go on whistling and smiling.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
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This unreliable cycle makes grouse moors unsuitable as investments.
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Here's a romantic view of a grouse shoot on Beamsley Beacon by Turner.
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I dislike hanging around people with lots of grouses.
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Without the collective, our grouse was the winter.
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Even huntable species such as grouse have a close season.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like grouse shooters, fox hunters, lampers, hare coursers, badger baiters and of course meat eaters, anglers do what they do simply because they enjoy doing it.
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The sportsmen cried out, "A hen pheasant!" but a gentleman present, who had often seen grouse in the north of England, assured me that it was a greyhen.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
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So great was the indignation that the empty plaints of a few celebrities who groused about leaving the country in 2000 became a popular badge of outrage last week.
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One day it would be noodles with garlic-butter sauce and a glass of pomegranate juice, the next it would be roasted grouse, bread, and a mug of sweetened milk.
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We loved to grouse and complain.
21 DOG YEARS
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The area we have circled is grouse moor, liberally scattered with boulders and crags and with ‘shooters shelters’, as grouse butts are curiously called here on my new map.
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Little red berries, like blood stars, peeped at them from the setting of silk lace moss -- wintergreen berries, and grouse berries, and lowbush cranberries, all blushing a furious red.
The Outcasts
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He said the trick with cooking grouse was to keep it simple - but, if they stick to the rules, Atkins dieters may have to forego some of the trimmings that come with the new-season bird, such as parsnip crisps and bread sauce.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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An army of beaters will drive the birds into the skies, tacking across the hillside, flushing the grouse out of their cover and into the air for the waiting guns.
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He gave us the recipe for the last of these, which can be made with salmon instead of wild duck or grouse.
A Passion for Food
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The typical flora and Pyrenean fauna make for a special place: pine forests, heather moors and humid areas provide the ideal habitat for grouses, crossbills, izards and hares.
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Forest fauna include brown bear Ursus arctos, grey wolf Canis lupus, wild boar Sus scrofa, wild cat Felis silvestris, chamois Rupicapra rupicapra, various species of eagle, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, black grouse Lyrurus tetrix and rock partridge Alectoris graeca.
Durmitor National Park, Montenegro
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We passed salmon rivers, grouse, wild deer and a eagle that took a shine to drone.
The Sun
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Yesterday was the Glorious Twelfth, traditionally the day when a certain class of country sportsman took to the Scottish hills for the first day of the grouse-shooting season.
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Between you and me, I had too much grouse and red wine last night and mackerel is very good for lowering cholesterol.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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For example, I did a dish of shirttail grouse with farro, sunflower seeds, malt vinegar, vetch flowers and a rose hip glaze -- the grouse we'd shot had been gorging on vetch and rose hips, so it seemed appropriate.
Stephanie J. Stiavetti: An Interview With Hank Shaw, the Hunter/Angler/Gardener/Cook
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Grouse will soon be in season again.
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Finally someone is sounding out the grouses of the general public on the papers regarding the ridiculously expensive cost of things out there.
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Apples and garlic are roasted alongside the grouse and then mashed together to add depth, flavour and to thicken the gravy, omitting the need to use flour.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are an important item in the diet of grouse chicks, and are abundant when they first appear.
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Understory growth is not luxuriant, consisting mostly of grouse whortleberry, Oregon grape, and birchleaf spirea.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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Snow on the Scottish mountains sends many red grouse down from the exposed higher ground to forest edges or farms in the foothills.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actual shooting over grouse moors occurs on very few days per season and not at weekends or on public holidays.
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They know that you are a bore or not a bore, a grouser or not a grouser, generous or mean, sentimental or cynical, an optimist or a pessimist, and that you have or have not a sense of humour.
If I May
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Unlike grouse, pheasants are easy to breed and have much more meat, feeding three comfortably.
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'E wasn't arf a grouser, an' 'e' ad good luck all the bloomin 'time.
Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France
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It was in August in the year 1807 or 1809 (the manuscript is too much soiled to be sure of the last figure) that either the Vicar of Lastingham or his curate-in-charge publicly laid this spirit, which had for many years haunted the wath or ford crossing the river Dove where it runs at no great distance from Grouse Hall.
The Evolution of an English Town
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The grouse of aged visitors to the Eco Park against the Corporation is that it has not taken any steps to develop the three-acre area on its southern side.
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Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail.
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Such a policy would needlessly destroy millions of acres of already dwindling sage-steppe habitat that supports sage grouse and other grassland species, such as pronghorn, mule deer and golden eagles.
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Evidence points to illegal persecution on grouse moors as the main obstacle to its recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since then we have had grouses about red-tape, taxation, education, high interest rates, bad weather, directors’ pay, students' fees and much more besides.
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This is the label addressed to the friend who expected the Grouse that
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
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Evidence points to illegal persecution on grouse moors as the main obstacle to its recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
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In recent years, the marketing risks grouse with each passing day which restrict normal marketing activities of enterprises.
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Where early travelers saw sharp-tailed grouse, bison, bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, numerous beaver and even wolverines, today they see dust, feral horses, and noxious weeds including cheatgrass, halogeton and Russian thistle.
Bird Cloud
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At the base of Grouse Mountain I entered into another means of transportation: the Skyride, a 6 minute gondola/tram ride to the main complex at the top of the Mountain.
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Professional beaters will be called in by Bradford Council to drive birds on to privately-owned adjoining moors where grouse shoots still take place.
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At Sandringham, Grandpapa took the boys hunting pheasant and grouse, while Charles took care to teach them the finer points of fly-fishing for salmon and sea trout on the river Dee at Balmoral.
William and Kate
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Among the 102 species of birds are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (VU), golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, eagle owl Bubo bubo, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides trydactilus and Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus.
Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
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Loss of sagebrush in the Great Basin to agriculture and grazing has reduced the sage grouse population from several million to 160,000.
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Commercial snapper crews grouse also about offshore shrimpers, although not quite so vocally, and feel that sport fishermen may get too large a share.
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Thousands of shooters will pour on to moors across Britain for the Glorious Twelfth, the traditional start of the grouse-shooting season.
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On Saturday afternoon Mr Seymour & I did some shooting - rabbits & grouse with the girls as beaters.
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We can't even replicate these 'actuators' yet," Filitov groused.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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Most Spruce Grouse do not migrate, but some do move short distances between separate summer and winter ranges.
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1831 OW sturnine swallow 1809 ibidine ibis 1875 OW OW tetraonine grouse, laridine gull, etc. 1877 ptarmigan, etc.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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Now here is my particular grouse: What was in the minds of the designers who thought up that last set of track wear for our women runners?
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One or two of the dialogue scenes, in particular the one showing international war-profiteers enjoying a grouse shoot, have a dated, agitprop feel.
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Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sage grouse depend on healthy sage grasslands, especially dense stands of brush, for shelter and protection.
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Secondly, those same non-native species are ecologically inappropriate in Europe and underscore various environmental problems such as habitat loss for native flora and fauna affecting capercaillie and black grouse to name two.
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This unreliable cycle makes grouse moors unsuitable as investments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover.
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Meanwhile, ministry vets have given the go-ahead for grouse shooting to start at the beginning of the season on August 12, the Glorious Twelfth.
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‘We won't be having driven shooting of grouse this year - we want to conserve our stock,’ he says.
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It has been suggested that columbids are closely related to gamebirds, buttonquails, parrots, shorebirds and sandgrouse (sandgrouse are sometimes included in the order Columbiformes).
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Civil war was the winner on the day and I hope youse all have a grouse night.
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They include pine marten, wildcat, stoat and weasel as well as golden eagles, merlin, peregrine falcon, golden plover and in time black grouse and capercaillie.
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Norton trainer Malcolm Jefferson can make his long journey to Britain's most northerly course worthwhile by winning the Famous Grouse Novices' Hurdle with Brooklyn Brownie.
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Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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The Lords and ladies would be put up at the Devonshire Arms Hotel at Bolton Abbey before the pheasant and grouse shoots.
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The winner will be decided on Sunday and sent a gallon bottle of Famous Grouse whisky.
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Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly.
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The grouses tend to focus on the traffic, the airport and the shortage of hotel rooms.
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This unreliable cycle makes grouse moors unsuitable as investments.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a Pennine grouse moor there is ample food - grouse and other birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Owners with a grouse about British prize money could do a lot worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drizzle the honey over the grouse, then roast in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through it all he "groused," but he applied himself earnestly to the task in hand and seriously complained only about his spoiled clothes.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula
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I've groused about this before and will probably grouse again in the future.
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Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apples and garlic are roasted alongside the grouse and then mashed together to add depth, flavour and to thicken the gravy, omitting the need to use flour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apart from the grouse and the woodcock which gives the hill its name, it's a very important habitat for the hen harrier, which is very rare.
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Owners with a grouse about British prize money could do a lot worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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People here have another big grouse: Government does not seem to be interested in registering this district on the tourist map of the state.
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Responsible grouse moor owners shouldn't have anything to fear from the RSPB.
Times, Sunday Times
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Krenk-er-renk-errenk!" of the grouse shooting up from the heather.
The Three Sisters
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Hanging game can't be that important or restaurants wouldn't be full of pretentious prats eating grouse on the 12th of August, the only day when you can guarantee the birds can't have been hung.
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This will create age structure in the heather, improve habitat for grouse and allow us to see if there are any drainage channels taking water away from the raised mire.
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In ‘Savings in a Snowbank’, Peter Marchand notes that ptarmigans and grouse often take refuge under a blanket of snow on cold nights, having ‘caught on to a trick no others use.’
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Then grouse lifted, to be swept away by a strong southerly.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Their grouse: expansive windmill-farms look unsightly!
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The heather provides safe havens for ground nesting birds like curlew, lapwing, merlin, golden plover and the black grouse and the Moorland Association wants walkers to help keep the moors special.
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The red grouse, the bird at the heart of all this, is an amazing creature.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits.
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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After sheep, the second most populous wildlife were grouse, which regularly flew out in pairs from the undergrowth with a violent batter of wings.
A walk in the back paddock « Mad Dave and Lil
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Red grouse is the most popular game bird in Scotland, where hunting on the large estates is both a cherished sport and one of great economic importance.
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Birds include species of swan goose Anser cygnoides, crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus, black kite Milvus migrans, hawk owl Sunia ulula, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and great bustard Otis tarda.
Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation
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A haven of small islands and bars of land looking out towards the sea, the place is a paradise for birdwatchers harbouring geese, eider duck, grouse and eagle.
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Whole roast grouse may still come with game chips and bread sauce but there is game jus rather than over-thickened gravy.
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The menu included roast grouse.
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But a bird that has a proven disruptive influence on wild grouse exists uneasily with raising large bags of grouse for sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roast grouse with poached plums was just drowned in jam (game wants bread sauce, crumbs and red wine in a glass, that's all) and the chicken was stuffed not with salmon this time, but foie gras.
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These actions will also benefit pygmy rabbits and sage grouse that use the area as rearing habitat.
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However, you stray off the reservation by taking a sideswipe at the black-footed ferret, greater sage-grouse, orchids and wild mustangs, not to mention the archeological and paleontological professions.
The Main Engineering Problems Used to Be Engineering
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The vultures groused, ‘Just look at how tiny you are.’
Dreamseller: The Calling
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And the fare was always good - the roast grouse even excellent.
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This also happens to be where Scotland's most emblematic birds are flying: golden eagles, ospreys, sea eagles, whooper swans, grouse etc.
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Mating success is often skewed toward central ‘hotshot’ males, such as in black grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, and bullfrogs.
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Grouse will soon be in season again.
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A sage grouse in full mating display will compete for the attentions of females on the lek.
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‘To spend that amount of money and not have it work, that's absurd,’ grouses one bottler.
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Of course, there are the grouses like high freight tariffs.
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“If those two cared about their son, they would have come back long before now,” he groused.
A Light at Winter’s End
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Grimond was adopted as candidate for Orkney and Shetland, having only seen the cliffs of Hoy while in Caithness on a grouse shoot.
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After Davis groused about former President Bill Clinton's decision to campaign for Emanuel, Braun did the same – adding her own dig at Emanuel.
Carol Moseley Braun Emerges As Leading Black Candidate
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We loved to grouse and complain.
21 DOG YEARS
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After second cross path dips just east of north and heads towards wooden and stone grouse butts.
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Real people, she felt, decent people — people who shot grouse, went to Ascot, yachted at Cowes — were not brainy.
Burmese Days
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Another interesting feature about pheasants is the extraordinary difference in plumage between the sexes, a gap equalled only between the blackcock and greyhen and quite unknown in the partridge, quail and grouse.
Birds in the Calendar
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Perfect for picnics or shooting parties, or as dessert after roasted grouse or casseroled game.
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Periodically, fights broke out between the males as they competed for the coveted role of alpha grouse.
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Because the poem is broken up, page by page, and because children will want to linger over the colorful images of ptarmigans, penguins, roadrunners and grouse along with puffins, boobies, pigeons and a scarlet-bosomed frigatebird, this is a bedtime book that will require reading at least twice.
A Walrus, a Bear, A Cat, Oh My!
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I had the whole roast grouse with ‘banana fondants’ and baby onions for €26.
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
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Thousands of shooters will pour on to moors across Britain for the Glorious Twelfth, the traditional start of the grouse-shooting season.
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Their grouse is that other south Indian language films are sound both technically and visually as they have film cities of their own.
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After that, I had a sensational roast young grouse served medium-rare.
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On a Pennine grouse moor there is ample food - grouse and other birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Touche, the ship's grouser and dismal James, was taking the optimistical side, whilst Bompard, generally cheerful, was the pessimist.
The Beach of Dreams
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In addition, there are other male-incubating species such as buttonquail, mesites, sandgrouse, and shorebirds that have neither helpers nor communal cooperation.
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Unlike grouse, pheasants are easy to breed and have much more meat, feeding three comfortably.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most immediate examples of that are in direct species offtake, such as the trophy hunting of sandgrouse in Kenya.
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A male gorilla or sage grouse does not refuse to mate with a female because of her appearance.
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After missing a turnaround bank shot from about 10 feet with Martin guarding him, Duncan groused about it down the floor and was called for a technical foul with 1: 25 remaining in the third quarter.
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Native grasses support cattle grazing and provide forage and shelter for native wild animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse.
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‘Oh, fine, so maybe there's some truth in it,’ he groused.
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Grouse shooting begins in August.
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The criticisms, curiously enough, came in a great many cases from the very men in the Towers 'ranks who had often "groused" most at the silliness of themselves being kept up to the mark in these matters.
Action Front
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Any new wrinkle that retailers can offer to create more good will and turn a discomfited grouser into a gratified shopper's companion makes good sense.
A New Sales Incentive
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits.
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Initially, customers groused about a grinding gear shift, poor air-conditioning, and lousy tires.
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In Scottish winters, while the rest of the country yearns for sun, the keepers on grouse moors pray for a deep, deep frost.
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Shooters traditionally look forward to August 12, when they dust off their guns and head for the moors for the start of the grouse shooting season.
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These are an important item in the diet of grouse chicks, and are abundant when they first appear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Little is known about sandgrouse despite the group having a broad geographical range.
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1 The Illinois species is that known as pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus americanus).
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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They spent the weekend in Scotland shooting grouse.
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House sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and blue grouse dine on mistletoe berries, while porcupines devour whatever plant parts they can reach.
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Although some hotels and luxury food stores compete to serve the first grouse of the season, many of the birds go to overseas markets.
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The pheasants are getting cleverer, the grouse wilier.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 16 paintings in the British Birds in Watercolour exhibition at Nunnington were completed over the past year and feature game birds grouse, partridge and woodcock as well as kingfisher, robin, whitethroat and tawny owl.
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Accordingly he shouted to his eunuchs and women an order to serve food, and they set before them a tray containing birds of every king that walk and fly and in nests increase and multiply, such as sand-grouse and quails and pigeon-poults and lambs and fatted geese and fried poultry and other dishes of all sorts and colours.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world.
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Professional beaters will be called in by Bradford Council to drive birds on to privately-owned adjoining moors where grouse shoots still take place.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that nests of species such as short-eared owls, merlins, red grouse, meadow pipits, skylarks, twite and curlews will have been wiped out.
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 1 week 4 days ago wabbits, grouse, yotes and our finny friends under the hard water.
What are you guys still hunting for if anything?
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Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly.
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I "groused" too, like a good fellow, but had to go.
A Yankee in the Trenches
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Streams and standing winter water are pretty, grouse butts are everywhere, and with three sweeps of its scimitar wings a raptor slid into the next valley.
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He is a member of a grouse shoot.
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A quarter an hour later we were back on course up a gill, passing rush beds, grouse butts and, at an interesting bit of lead mine landscaping, connecting to the first of many a mile of Landrover track.
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Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that nests of species such as short-eared owls, merlins, red grouse, meadow pipits, skylarks, twite and curlews will have been wiped out.
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Wild birds that might be acceptable alternatives for William include woodcock, wood pigeon, partridge and grouse.
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It places the blame firmly at the door of grouse moor owners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards.
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The black grouse (or blackcock) has actually become extinct on Dartmoor.
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Unlike grouse, pheasants are easy to breed and have much more meat, feeding three comfortably.
Times, Sunday Times
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And while some had soared like a Cuillins capercailzie - others have crashed like a shot-leaden grouse on the Glorious Twelfth.
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Grouse-shooting on the Yorkshire moors on the Glorious Twelfth the following day would be cautious, with landowners anxious to preserve stocks.
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Black grouse, which are about the size of a hen, lek year round, but it is during springtime that the activity intensifies and the greyhens congregate to seek a mate.
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Have a grouse about an inconsiderate bus driver?
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The 204 bird species include capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, black grouse Lyrurus tetrix, willow grouse Lagopus lagopus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides tridactylus, nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes and red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus.
Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation
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I also met with great numbers of Grouse or prarie hens as they are called by the English traders of the N.W. these birds appeared to be mating; the note of the male is kuck, kuck, kuck, coo, coo, coo. the first part of the note both male and female use when flying. the male also dubbs something like the pheasant, but by no means as loud. after breakfast Capt.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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The body, close to two grouse moors, was found by a hillwalker last month.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sage grouse in full mating display will compete for the attentions of females on the lek.
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From pheasant to grouse, game needn't be elitist.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
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He had even described his short public life as a ‘long litany of failures ‘and ‘heartfelt personal grouses.’
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The tank battalions saw the first Army effort to improve mo - bility during the winter of 1944, when grouser kits, also known as "duck bills," became available.
Steel Victory
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And if you, innocently trying to get a cool drink of water, become the passive recipient of the grousing, instead of stroking your chin while you pretend to listen, kindly ask the grouser if they've thought of doing anything proactive about their issue.
Archive 2006-06-01
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While the days are long gone when a headkeeper's game book might show 3000 brace of grouse from a day's shooting and the loaders' hands would be singed from handling red-hot guns, game hunting has attracted growing opposition.
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The grouse population has traditionally been prone to yearly fluctuations, but global warming is being blamed in some quarters for a sustained slump in numbers.
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The winner will be decided on Sunday and sent a gallon bottle of Famous Grouse whisky.
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Grouse Mountain lodge is where the Today show was televised during the Olympics and also a hangout for all the adventurous folk, it was open 24 hours a day during the Olympics.
Hack chat: Farewell to excellent host Vancouver
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However, lapwings are thriving in the uplands on managed grouse moors and the fields surrounding them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Small eggs may jeopardize survival for precocial grouse chicks that rely extensively on nutrient stores after hatching.
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Tens of thousands of the game birds will be shot over the next few weeks as the Scottish grouse shooting season gets under way on the traditional Glorious Twelfth of August.
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We passed the most wonderfully invisible grouse butts buried in bilberries and discussed when the heather would be at its best.
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Goathland was popular with wealthy visitors from the West Riding who came for grouse shooting, walks on the moors and the golf course, which was then laid out on the village green, with drives across many of the roads.
