Apr. 11—In addition to the Sharpie Shack, Dan Svedarsky has a prairie chicken blind — dubbed the "Taj Ma Chicken" — on a nearby booming ground. Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge a few ...

Female grouse generally gather somewhere in the vicinity, listening for the “bloops” emitted from the male grouse. Eventually, they wander into the lek to feign indifference before settling on ...

It turns out, however, that female grouse are more interested in the dance displays and are more likely to mate with males who put on a good show.

A female ruffed grouse was protecting her chicks. I was happy she was unhurt and then eager to snap a photo. But she was watching me from behind a bit too much vegetation to get a good shot.

Henry is a ruffed grouse that has lived for at least two years on the farm of Mike and his wife, Julie, outside Wauzeka. It’s tradition for the president to spare a turkey this time of year at ...

Gunnison sage-grouse once may have numbered in the tens of thousands. “There’s an article from 1894 in the Salt Lake City newspaper by a guy who shot 860 sage-grouse in a single afternoon,” says ...

The 2024 National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt was held Oct. 10 and 11 in ... Woodcock recruitment of 1.22 juveniles per adult female, however, was higher than 2023 (0.7) and on par with the ...

When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing. Indeed, new Yale research into these prairie-dwelling birds confirms that ...

“Male grouse will continue to be active at the leks into June in some years, but attendance by female grouse generally starts to taper off by mid-May. We will not accept any reservations beyond ...