English: Black Grouse
Russian: Тетерев
German: Birkhuhn
French: Tetras lyre
Mongolian: Хар хур, Хур
Japanese: クロライチョウ (Hei Qinji)

Body length: 49-58 cm
Wing span: 55-95 cm

Resident breeder
Breeding season: March-August

Egg number: 6-10 (occasionally 5-16)
Egg colour: Glossy, creamy buffish yellow with buffish brown blotches
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Seeds, soft and green parts of plants, roots, buds, insects, worms.  

Habitat:  Breeding pairs nest on the ground in dense vegetated areas mixed with shrubs and bushes in coniferous, deciduous and mixed forest. They remain together and join with large flocks in winter. Large flocks consisting of more than 100 individuals stay in river valleys and lakes down to forest edge and feed on wintering buds and seeds. Large congregated flocks are often seen in wheat fields in winter.