Sharp-tailed grouse dances in mating ritual on cold snowy winter lek

Dance like no one is watching, or like you're a sharp-tailed grouse. Every spring, sharp-tailed grouse form mating grounds, or leks, where they congregate to compete for territories and perform mating displays. This crowded scene leads to fighting among the males as they attempt to dance and win the affections of the females. Video footage filmed by USFWS at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. Video description: a sharp-tailed grouse taps its little feet quickly back and fort

Grouse Dance

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Sharp-tailed grouse

When you hear there is only one native bird species extinct from western Montana, only one that used to be present in the western side of the continental divide that is no longer here, I am guessing what first comes to mind is some obscure songbird or some rare species. As logical as those assumptions would be, they are incorrect. It is, in fact, sharp-tailed grouse that we are missing on the western side of Montana, good ol’ “prairie chickens.” Their range used to extend from the Bitterroot Val

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