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title: "Sooty Grouse"
description: "Dendragapus fuliginosus — Uccelli. The sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to North America's Pacific Coast Ranges."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/sooty-grouse
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sooty Grouse

> Dendragapus fuliginosus — Uccelli. The sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to North America's Pacific Coast Ranges.

- Scientific name: *Dendragapus fuliginosus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 7657
- Wikidata: [Q1265902](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1265902)
- iNaturalist taxon: [72797](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/72797)

## Names

- en: Sooty Grouse
- de: Rußgebirgshuhn
- es: Urogallo fuliginoso
- fr: Tétras fuligineux
- pl: Borowiak żółtogardły

## Countries with the most observations

US (5452), CA (1753)

## Summary

The sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to North America's Pacific Coast Ranges. It is closely related to the dusky grouse (Dendragapus obscurus), and the two were previously considered a single species, the blue grouse.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sooty_grouse

## Photo

![Sooty Grouse](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sooty-grouse/medium.jpg)

Photo: Braden J. Judson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36779065

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sooty-grouse?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).