DANBURY - Pink and orange light bled across the eastern horizon and heralded dawn April 16 across northwestern Wisconsin. And on a flat, grassy half-acre in northern Burnett County something else also ...

Male sharp-tailed grouse vie for the attention of a female on their dancing grounds in central Grand Forks County on a recent chilly morning in March 2023. I mutter these words as I give the final tug ...

POLK COUNTY, Minn. – It’s a cold, frosty morning on the prairie, and like he has done so many spring mornings over the past five decades, Dan Svedarsky is out before dawn to witness a prairie rite of ...

KETTLE RIVER, Minn. — This should be the time of year when sharp-tailed grouse do their dancing, the territorial mating ritual when males square off to bluff fight and females gather to watch. To the ...

Male sharp-tailed grouse will be showing off their best dance moves to attract females at leks across the West. Tune in to the Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge's live video feed to watch.

It isn't easy to capture an up-close view of the outrageous, wing-flapping, foot-stomping, chest-puffing, guttural-moaning mating ritual of the sharp-tailed grouse that takes place at daybreak during ...

Apr. 8—GRAND FORKS — It's quite the spectacle. Every spring, male prairie grouse — prairie chickens and sharptails — gather on mating grounds called leks and put on elaborate displays in an effort to ...

Two males face off on the lek where they gather to court female grouse. (Photo courtesy of walkerphotography.smugmug.com) A female sharp-tailed grouse looks over prospective suitors. (Photo courtesy ...

Two species of prairie grouse are native to Nebraska, the greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) and the sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus). Long before man arrived in North America, ...

The gray partridge, pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse or chukar - which of these birds is not like the others? The upland bird that does not fit in with the rest of these game birds found in Montana is ...