Sharp-tailed Grouse

Taxonomy

Order

Galliformes

Family

Phasianidae

Genus

Tympanuchus

eBird Code

shtgro

Vocalizations

Subspecies (7)

• Tympanuchus phasianellus campestris

  southern Manitoba to northern Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin

• Tympanuchus phasianellus caurus

  northern Alaska to southern Yukon, northern British Columbia, and northern Alberta

• Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus

  north-central British Columbia to eastern Oregon, northern Utah, and western Colorado

• Tympanuchus phasianellus hueyi

  formerly northeastern New Mexico; extinct by 1952

• Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesi

  north-central Alberta and Saskatchewan to Colorado and Nebraska

• Tympanuchus phasianellus kennicotti

  Mackenzie River to Great Slave Lake

• Tympanuchus phasianellus phasianellus

  northern Manitoba to northern Ontario and west-central Quebec