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  1. #11
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    Default Re: Grouse Hunting in PA

    Southern Clinton County the same with grouse. I have seen ZERO dusting themselves on the forestery roads and a few walking the field edges and brush in rabbit country. (minis the rabbits).
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    There used to be a lot of them in the old strip mines grounds. I haven't seen any in two years and heard very few last spring.
    There are tons of egg eating critters running around now that so few people trap. It might be time to eliminate the furtakers license in the state.

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    Two or three years ago, I was speaking with a fellow who mentioned that Ruffed Grouse populations were being decimated by avian influenza. I can't verify the claim but it sounds like he may have been correct.

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    Default Re: Grouse Hunting in PA

    Quote Originally Posted by HDT20 View Post
    There used to be a lot of them in the old strip mines grounds. I haven't seen any in two years and heard very few last spring.
    There are tons of egg eating critters running around now that so few people trap. It might be time to eliminate the furtakers license in the state.
    And why would eliminating the furtaker license be the answer? I wait with anxious anticipation as you attempt to explain.
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    Default Re: Grouse Hunting in PA

    "Anxious anticipation", wow.
    Getting rid of the requirement of purchasing the furtaker's tag might get more hunters /trappers to go after the critters that eat the eggs of ground nesting birds. If you know anything about the prices being paid for raw fur you know that there is no financial incentive for trapping.

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    Default Re: Grouse Hunting in PA

    Quote Originally Posted by eatmydust View Post
    Two or three years ago, I was speaking with a fellow who mentioned that Ruffed Grouse populations were being decimated by avian influenza. I can't verify the claim but it sounds like he may have been correct.
    I don't know the answer to the decimation but if it was the avian influenza, then how come it didn't affect other birds?

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    Default Re: Grouse Hunting in PA

    Quote Originally Posted by eatmydust View Post
    Two or three years ago, I was speaking with a fellow who mentioned that Ruffed Grouse populations were being decimated by avian influenza. I can't verify the claim but it sounds like he may have been correct.
    My understanding is that West Nile virus is hitting both the grouse and the turkey populations hard.

    As to whether it is hitting other bird populations hard...I couldn't say. I realy haven't been paying attention to the numbers of Prothonotary warblers and Townsend's Solitaires, as I have no reason to do so. They may also be declining for all that I know.
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    Default Re: Grouse Hunting in PA

    PGC report states it is avian influenza that has hit the grouse population hard. Seems to be ample turkeys where I'm at. I'll start worrying if I see my winter birds avoiding my feeder, staying out of flocks and wearing little beak masks.
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