This enduring success could silence critics who grouse that the costs of the approach are not justified by the benefits.
Conservationists say the decline in grouse is due to bad moorland management: it started before bird-protection laws in 1954 and recent reintroductions of predator species.
Each year the country's grouse moors are invaded by a tweed-clad army of “guns” intent on bagging a brace or two of birds on the opening day of the shooting season.
Indeed managing moorland for grouse shooting has almost certainly saved the species itself from extinction.
Any of several plump-bodied Old World game birds, especially of the genera Perdix and Alectoris, related to the pheasants and grouse.
Though they burst into the workforce with expectations of fun and fulfilment (leading employers to grouse about their sense of entitlement), they have been delivered a slap by the recession.
Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse.
A short season, beginning of course on the Glorious Twelfth makes grouse one of the most eagerly-awaited treats of the year.
The grouse season opens in Britain, but which game bird can make the swiftest escape?
I must admit I often feel like my colleagues who grouse about spending all day treating patients who do not seem to care about their health and then demand a quick fix.
So if you boss is saying NO to your killer idea because there are insufficient funds, don't just grouse.
As well as the serious money required to take part in a grouse shoot a true aim is vital.
The latter, for example, ritualized their time; there was a season to shoot grouse, a season to spend in town, etc.
You'll get 10 minutes to fill it in, and people grouse about it.
He is a member of grouse shoot.
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