Red Grouse, Northumberland Moor
From £32.00
A male red grouse surfaces from the heather at first light, his red eye-comb flared and catching the low sun, larger and brighter in males, especially through the breeding season. Almost entirely endemic to Britain and Ireland's uplands, this bird is as much a symbol of the northern moors as the heather it hides in.
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The red grouse is found almost nowhere else in the world outside Britain and Ireland's upland moors, where it depends almost entirely on heather for food and cover. Males carry a bright red comb above the eye, brighter still through the spring breeding season, while the duller, better-camouflaged females do almost all of the incubating and chick-rearing alone.
