Spruce Grouse Summer Tree Perch Healy Alaska

Adorned in his summer plumage, a Spruce Grouse finds a perch in a Spruce tree to rest on in the wilderness of Healy, Alaska.

As the summer sun highlights the wilderness of Healy, Alaska, a Spruce Grouse finds a favorite place to perch where they feed on the buds found on spruce or pine trees. Other types of food eaten by the Spruce Grouse are berries, green plants and some insects during the summer and conifer needles in the winter.

A female Spruce Grouse has a mottled brown plumage with a mixture of dark and white bars underneath. The Spruce tree is the ideal location for the Spruce Grouse to perch as it blends in amongst the summer colors of the wilderness trees.

The Spruce Grouse is found in Healy, Alaska throughout the year with some venturing on short trips during the colder winter months. Their breeding habitat is the boreal forests or taiga across Alaska and Canada where they nest on the ground in the dense growth of the wilderness.

Alaska, Healy Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) perched in spruce tree.

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Photo Title: Spruce Grouse Summer Tree Perch Healy Alaska

Adorned in his summer plumage, a Spruce Grouse finds a perch in a Spruce tree to rest on in the wilderness of Healy, Alaska.