Poultry
Grouse
C tier
Grouse eggs are mottled, small-to-medium, and extremely rare as a legal food item because wild nests are protected and birds are managed for sport populations. Historically in some regions, eggs carried strong moorland character when taken under old customs now largely ended. Modern culinary practice should not target wild grouse nests. Any farmed tetraonid egg would be experimental specialty only. This records the ingredient category rather than encouraging harvest.
Also known as: Grouse egg (historic/protected), Forest grouse egg (regulated)
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History
Historical moor customs occasionally included grouse eggs before modern protection norms.
Sport management increasingly protected nests for bird production.
Wildlife law tightly constrained taking grouse eggs.
Grouse eggs vanished from legitimate commercial food channels.