Bonasa umbellus

Ruffed Grouse are medium sized grouse with crested heads and reddish or gray scaled upperparts. Their white underparts have pale reddish or gray bars on their breasts and dark reddish or gray bars on their bellies and flanks. Their tails is gray or reddish with fine white bars with a thick dark band at the tip. They have a black ruff on the sides of their necks. Northern forms of Ruffed Grouse are grayer.