MALE SOOTY GROUSE, BURNABY MOUNTAIN PARK, BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 6/11/2022 - PHOTOGRAPHIC LIFE LIST SPECIES # 1,025

   We can ID this bird as a  male Sooty Grouse as follows:

• Heard its distinctive mating call: a low-pitched, pulsing hoot
• Large, chicken-like body with small head
• Slate gray and black with white speckles
• Yellow-orange comb of bare skin above eyes
• Short bill

   The Sooty Grouse is a new species to our Photographic Life List,  which now stands at 1,025.

 

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