Glukhar' & teterev

[Kevin Windle]

Further to John Meredig’s comments, the Polish names głuszec and głuchy cietrzew are semantically close to the Russian, perhaps also the result of a folk belief.

Aksakov’s Zapiski ruzheinogo okhotnika orenburgskoi gubernii contains detailed descriptions of both species, including display and mating behaviour. The flesh of the black grouse is apparently the tastier of the two. See also the annotated English version: Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler, NW University Press 1998, tr. by KW.

Kevin Windle

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Greetings:
I believe we are talking about two different birds: the глухарь Tetrao urogallus and the тетерев Lyrurus tetrix . They are both large black grouse and the former is the larger of the two. The sounds they may make may be equally bad, (I have never heard a тетерев), but the глухарь can be found online. The two birds look similar, but their tails are quite different, the male тетерев has a large  tail in the shape of an upside down lyre, and the male глухарь has a semi-circular tale aiming upward. Both birds delight prospective girl-friends at mating places на току in small groups,  but only the глухарь has the reputation of deafening himself with it. The females of the species are much smaller and speckled, plain as can be. Perhaps as a result cross-fertilization has occurred and produced a межняк.
Salutations,
G. Gerhart
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