Red Grouse, 19cm on Heather Moorland, Painted C809

Our smallest sculpture of a Red Grouse, this 19cm tall bird is ideal to display on a mantlepiece or bookshelf and we can add an engraved plate if required.

The red grouse is a medium-sized game bird. It has a plump body, a short tail and a lightly hook-tipped bill. It is reddish-brown, with its legs and feet covered in pale feathers. Birds breed in the UK in the uplands of the north and west and are resident all year round, travelling very little in their lives. The population is declining, perhaps linked to diseases and the loss of heather moorland.

The best place to see this bird is on upland heather moors, when is suddenly rockets up from the heather when disturbed to fly off with fast-whirring wingbeats.