Black grouse: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the black grouse lives – recorded in 18 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Lyrurus tetrix
Group	Pheasants, grouse & game birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	18 countries
Continents	Asia, Europe
Mass	1.18 kg (male organism, adult weight); 925 g (female organism, adult weight); 35.5 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Galliformes
Family	Phasianidae

Where does the black grouse live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the black grouse in 18 countries and territories across Asia and Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a black grouse?

Wikidata records the following for the black grouse: mass 1.18 kg (male organism, adult weight); 925 g (female organism, adult weight); 35.5 g (birth weight).

Is the black grouse endangered?

The black grouse’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the black grouse?

The black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) is a bird in the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae, genus Lyrurus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the black grouse

The black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix), also known as northern black grouse, Eurasian black grouse, blackgame or blackcock, is a large bird in the grouse tribe. It is a sedentary species, spanning across the Palearctic in moorland and steppe habitat when breeding, often near wooded areas. They will spend the winter perched in dense forests, feeding almost exclusively on the needles of conifers. The black grouse is one of two species of grouse in the genus Lyrurus, the other being the lesser-known Caucasian grouse.

The female is greyish-brown and has a cackling or warbling call. She takes all responsibility for nesting and caring for the chicks, as typical with most galliforms.

The black grouse's genome was sequenced in 2014.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Black grouse (revision 1371788242), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q155878 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).