Sites to know more about Grouse, thanks to the few GSG colleagues who have recommended url addresses ! This list will grow up, when I get new information. Please let me know !
Last additions in January 2007

• ASIA       no link known!
  
  
• EUROPE

  • Cantabrian Capercaillie web site (October 2005): http://www.urogallocantabrico.org web site in Spanish, but soon with English pages (under development, by Mario Quevedo). There is also a "Cantabrian Capercaillie Center" inaugurated August 2005, located in Caboalles de Abajo, Leon (Spain), on the southern slope of the Cantabrian Mountains.

    To know more about it, download the two presentation prospects (pdf, in Spanish) Triptico & Octavilla

  • Capercaillie in UK (October 2005) - Life project: http://www.capercaillie-life.info/
  • The project on the Caucasian black grouse in Turkey (March 2005). The project is run by the national NGO Doga Dernegi and is entitled 'Improving the conservation status of the Caucasian Black Grouse in Turkey'. The project Manager is Mr Geoff Welch. The site provides background to the project and a summary of activities to date, and is viewable in English and Turkish.The address is www.dogadernegi.org/daghorozu/
  • The Grouse Specialist Group profile (February 2005). Achieved and now announced at the foot of the SSC homepage. It can be accesed directly by clicking onto link: http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgprofiles/grouse.htm
  • Black Grouse UK (December 2004) - Biodiversity Action Plan for Black Grouse in United Kingdom: http://www.blackgrouse.info/
  • Coordination Committee for the Conservation of Cocks (and hens) of Black Grouse 'Cococococks': information relay on regular European Black Grouse Conferences (created in 2000) and Black Grouse bibliography compiled by Michèle Loneux: http://www.ulg.ac.be/museezoo/cococococks
  • Tetraspool : software developed by Sebastien Sachot http://www2.unil.ch/tetraspool/
  • Capercaillie in the French Vosges: http://groupetetrasvosges.free.fr/
    
    
    
• AMERICA
  • NEW! Texas A&M university, Captive Propagation Facility of the Attwaters's Prairie Chicken http://apc.tamu.edu/index/surf.htm
  • Centre for Alpine studies in Canada, an online forum for Research http://www.forestry.ubc.ca/alpine/index.htm
  • Incredible observation of Ptarmigans at sea: http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/Fisheries/Western_Alaska/ptarmigan.htm
  • Sage Grouse: http://www.sagegrouse.org/ There are also extensive bibliographies for both Greater Sage grouse and Gunnison Sage grouse species, that you can find by clicking on the species and scrolling through the reports and press releases.
  • Research on Prairie Grouse in Washington: http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/research/grouse/grouse.htm
  • Sage Grouse: http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/species/birds/sagegrouse/
  • Grouse projects in Minnesota (R.J. Gutiérrez lab): http://www.fw.umn.edu/Research/Owls/GrouseProjects.htm
  • The North American Grouse Partnership: http://www.grousepartners.org
  • SAGEMAP: A GIS Database for Sage Grouse and Shrubsteppe Management in the Intermountain West: http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov/ . Visit the documents page, including 'Guidelines to manage sage grouse populations and their habitats'.
  • Prairie Chickens studies, Sutton Research Center: http://www.suttoncenter.org
  • Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - Bird population studies (USA): http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/
  • Sisk-a-dee Gunison Sage-Grouse Conservation: http://www.siskadee.org/index.htm
  • The Gunnison Sage-Grouse: http://www.western.edu/bio/young/gunnsg/gunnsg.htm
  • Sage-Grouse - US National Wildlife Federation: http://www.nwf.org/sagegrouse/programHomepage.cfm?cpId=62&CFID=1616100&CFTOK
  • short paper to download (Sage Grouse) : http://www.partnersinflight.org/pubs/birdcons/14pg10.pdf
  
  
  Parent associations
  • IUCN
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission
  • World Pheasant Association (UK)
  • BirdLife International
  
  
  Partners and cooperation
  • WPA-Galliformes Genetics Group (created October 2004)
  • The Game Conservancy Trust
  • Pheasant Specialist Group
  • Partridge/Quail/Francolin Specialist Group
  • Cracids Specialist Group
  • Megapodes Specialist Group
  • IUCN Redlist of Threathened Species
  
  
  Counters

  

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Thanks to Ilse Storch, Michael Schroeder, Sebastien Sachot, Don Wolfe, Kenny Kortland, Mario Quevedo