hazel grouse

I was far away from the elegant drawing rooms of Moscow, where Pierre Bezukhov sips dry Madeira wine and dines on hazel grouse.

Besides the Common Hazel Grouse, two other species are known, one from Eastern Russia and the other from China.

But sportsmen who have tramped over Scandinavia know it well by the name of Hazel Grouse.

We've done nothing but pluck birds since midday; pheasants, hoopoes, hazel grouse, and common grouse.

For five minutes I remained there—the silence of the forest broken only by the clucking of a hazel grouse above my head.