For starters I don't even know what a grouse bird looks like. I'm selling some cockatiels and I was offered this birds as a trade, I was told by this girl it was a pair of urogallo still was like huh???? And that's all she knew about them when she bought them at a flea market. I googled and all this different kinds of grouse show up Tetrao Urogallus, Western capercaillie, and a whole lot more. Any idea what we have here? And is it a male and female?
I'm not an expert at all but it doesn't look anything like an urogalla or even a grouse. Honestly it looks a lot like a ringneck pheasant hen but I have no clue and could be totally wrong.
I know, that's why I'm askimg, I googled urogallo and nothing looks like this, from there I googled grouse and nothing either. They look like some kind of game fowl pheasant like but then again I've never experienced with pheasants either.
Tetrao urogallus cantabricus (Cantabrian capercaillie) – Castroviejo, 1967: found in northwestern Spain they actually have a variety that looks identical to yours The species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 under its current binomial name.[3] Its closest relative is the black-billed capercaillie, Tetrao parvirostris, which breeds in the larch taiga forests of eastern Russia and parts of northern Mongolia and China.
Its most likely a young ringneck female. These grouse you are googling are very hard to come by in captivity and I would highly doubt would be found at a flea market. Also most grouse including urogallus and their subspecies have feathered feet/legs which are not shown in the photos above.
You definitively have a ring-necked pheasant hen. The girl was "pulling your leg"! Urogallo, that's a good one! If she does have any real Urogallus's, Im on my way to that flea market.
So ringnecked pheasant it is....lol....I've never heard of Urogallus before so I started googling and found grouse and subspecies, I was like huh???? So I came here askimg, thanks everyone.
They didn't happen to have any oshkin duskin pheasants did they?Hehehehe Hope they didn't get the cockatiels for free saying this is an expensive bird?Around here ringnecks go for 50.00 a pair. In N.H.,Tony.
