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Сapercaillie black-billed

(Tetrao parvirostris)

The stone capercaillie is similar to the common capercaillie, but slightly smaller,
longer-tailed and darker in color. The male wood grouse can be distinguished from
the common one by the characteristic (more often rounded) white spots on the tail.
The tail feathers have no streaks, the beak is dark. In Kamchatka, male wood grouses
have white spots on their wings, the tail is lighter, and the beard is larger than that
of the wood grouses living in Siberia. The weight of males is 3.2–4.6 kg, and that of
females is 1.7–2.2 kg. The length of males is 65–90 cm, of females — 55–65 cm. The
wingspan is 80–110 cm.
Food preferences are vegetative (leaves, needles, shoots) and generative (flowers,
fruits, seeds) plant organs.
The nesting area of distribution in the Sakhalin region is the central and northern
regions of island Sakhalin. At present, the southern border runs along the Poronayskaya
plain, north of the lake Nevskoe: Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Nogliksky, Okhinsky,
Poronaysky District, Smirnykhovsky, Tymovsky, Uglegorsky Districts

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