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What (who) is red grouse - definition

SUBSPECIES OF BIRD

Lagopus lagopus scotica; Gorcock; Gorhen; Moorcock (bird); Red Grouse; Moorbird; Moorfowl; Lagopus scotica; Moor-cock

red grouse

¦ noun a British moorland grouse with reddish-brown plumage. [Lagopus lagopus scoticus.]

gorcock

['g?:k?k]

¦ noun Scottish & N. English the male of the red grouse.

Origin

C17: from gor- (of unknown origin) + cock¹.

moor-cock

n.

Gorcock, red grouse, moor-fowl, moor-game, red ptarmigan, red game (Lagopus Scoticus).

Wikipedia

Red grouse

The red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scoticus. It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lagos (λαγος), meaning "hare", + pous (πους), "foot", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and scoticus is "of Scotland".

The red grouse is the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red grouse

Examples of use of red grouse

1. The red grouse shooting season officially starts every year on "The Glorious Twelfth" of August, although if the date falls on a Sunday, it is put back a day.

2. Gamekeepers burning vast swathes of moorland vegetation to encourage the growth of heather, a prime habitat for red grouse, threatens to release billions of tons of carbon locked in the peat bogs underneath, he added.

3. Joint working of this type is a very positive step, which in future years will hopefully bring this beautiful bird back to much more of our countryside." Simon Bostock, chairman of the Moorland Association said: "We are delighted that a pair of rare hen harriers is nesting on ground that Geoff Eyre manages for red grouse.

4. Watson wrote beautifully and combined his artistic and literary talents in a number of books: Birds of Moor and Mountain (1'72); The Hen Harrier (1'77); and in the autobiographical A Bird Artist in Scotland (1'88) and One Pair of Eyes (1''4). Undoubtedly Watson was most associated with the hen harrier, one of the most graceful and artistically pleasing of all our birds, yet the most persecuted because of its ability to take red grouse.