• Ruffed grouse: Nature snapshots from MN DNR
• Anything to grouse about? 2006 Minnesota Conservation Volunteer article
• Making the most of your woodlot from the Ruffed Grouse Society
• Gordon Gullion’s Managing Northern Forests for Wildlife, published in the 1970s and revised a decade later.  This is an excellent, comprehensive guide, but appears to be out of print.  If you know where to get a copy, let us know in the comments.
• Ruffed Grouse Society

• Managing your woodland for whitetail deer. MN DNR brochure.
• Whitetail deer: Nature snapshots from MN DNR
• Hunting whitetail deer in Minnesota
• Minnesota Deer Hunters Association  The statewide organization of deer hunters with over two dozen local chapters.
• Quality Deer Management Association The national organization that promotes practices leading to more and bigger bucks.

Wild turkey

• Wild turkey: Nature snapshots from MN DNR
• Hunting wild turkey in Minnesota
• Biology and management of eastern wild turkey. Video by Jim Miller from Southern Region Extension Forestry / Master Wildlifer program. One hour and fifteen minutes.
• Wild turkey on MyMinnesotaWoods
• National Wild Turkey Federation
• Minnesota NWTF Banquets

Songbirds

• Birds: Nature snapshots from MN DNR
• Woodlands and nongame wildlife. Brochure from MN DNR
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology  Cornell is the leader in reasearch on songbirds.  In particular, check their Project Feeder Watch program. 

Other useful info

• MN DNR – Wildlife private lands program
• MN DNR – Wildlife publications and reports
• The Minnesota DNR has a series of Nature Fact Sheets on many different gamd and nongame wildlife species.
• DNR Wildlife Contacts: 

Wildlife area managers contact map 
Wildlife assistant area managers contact map 

For facts and information about individual wildlife species, visit the DNR’s Animals of Minnesota page.