Wolves (Canis lupus) and cougars (Puma concolor) were completely eliminated from Michigan's Lower Peninsula and the early to mid-successional forests common now are very favorable for the mammals discussed here as well as for other popular game species such as wild turkey (Melleagris gallopavo) and ruffed grouse (
Bonasa umbellus), which are common in PRSF.
scotica: 3 and
Bonasa bonasia: 2; North America: Centrocercus urophasianus: 3, Tympanuchus phasianellus: 1).
Hares scavenged a variety of different species, including Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis), Common Loon (Gavia immer), Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), Ruffed Grouse (
Bonasa umbelius), and Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis).
Since then, several more avian species have been reported to present chemical defense, including: Ifrita kowaldi, Plectropterus gambesis, Ergaticus ruber,
Bonasa umbellus, Phaps elegans, and Phaps chalcoptera (Bartram & Boland, 2001).
It was early spring, and the male ruffed grouse (
Bonasa umbellus) was protecting his newly proclaimed territory: about 10 acres of young deciduous forest in front of my brother's house in Western New York.
542 352 lagopus * Grouse 635 413 (unidentified) * Ruffed Grouse
Bonasa 591 41% 384 umbellus * Spruce Grouse 595 41% 387 Falcipennis canadensis * Sooty Grouse 1004 653 Dendragapus fuliginosus Sharp-tailed Grouse 720 468 Tympanuchusphasianellus * Short-tailed Shearwater 527 343 Puffinus tenuirostris * Cormorant 1985 1290 (unidentified) * Double-crested Cormorant 2330 1515 Phalacrocorax auritus Red-faced Cormorant 2138 8% 1390 P.
2006a: Home range and habitat selection of hazel grouse
Bonasa bonasia in a temperate forest of South Korea.
Neoplasia in free-flying ruffed grouse (
Bonasa umbellus).
In Indiana, ruffed grouse (
Bonasa umbellus; another species that occupies early successional habitat) populations have been in decline for the past 25 years (Backs & Castrale 2014).
There are no reports of chondrosarcoma in parrots and few descriptions in other bird species, such as ruffed grouse (
Bonasa umbellus) (SIEGFRIED, 1983), great egret (Ardea herodius occidentalis and Ardea alba) (SPALDING & WOODARD, 1992; KUBO et al., 2007), yellow-collared macaw (Ara auricollis) (KENNEDY et al., 1995), chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) (DITTMER et al., 2012), and pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) (ERDOGAN et al., 2013).
Phalocrocorax atriceps muscles (0.29 mg/kg dry wt.), liver of
Bonasa umbellus (1.0 mg/kg dry wt.), Fulica Americana from (1.5 mg/kg fresh wt.) in muscle, Gavia immer (1.1 mg/kg fresh wt.), Larus fuscus in liver (2.0 mg/ kg dry wt.) and in muscle (5.0 mg/kg dry wt.).