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Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)

Sharp-tailed Grouse
Photo: USFWS Mountain-Prairie via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain — free for commercial reuse.

About the Sharp-tailed Grouse

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.

Source: Sharp-tailed grouse on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 66 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Canada, United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.