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April 20, 2010
Video: Sharp-Tailed Grouse Lek in Spring Snow
By Chad Love
This is the time of year when lesser and greater prairie chickens, sharp-tails and sage grouse gather on their booming grounds, called leks, to strut and drum and preen. It is a wondrous thing to watch. If you've never had the opportunity to see a prairie grouse lek in person, this video (a hat tip to Upland Journal for the find) from Montana videographer Dawson Dunning just might be the next-best thing.
Sharp-tailed Grouse Lek in Snow (HD) from Dawson Dunning on Vimeo.
I've spent my fair share of time huddled in a blind trying to capture lesser prairie chickens on film, but I don't think I've ever seen the action portrayed as artistically as that. Watch the video and then go spend a little time on the website of the North American Grouse Partnership to learn a more about what you can do to help our prairie grouse species and ensure we never lose the opportunity to watch something so magical.
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Comments (11)
Man those birds can dance amazing video!!!
Wow.. For being a lifelong resident of upland bird country, I have never seen that and didn't realize what kind of show it was. That is impressive. Good choice for the background music as well.. quite the experience..
On a seperate note, can we always get videos on this site from Vimeo? It's one of the only ones that has worked on my work computer. (Don't tell my boss)
That was stunning. I have to wonder if some prairie Indian dances were based on grouse courtship rituals.
Those dudes can really cut a rug, uh, lek.
MLH, I wonder that too- The Shoshone probably called the Green River Sisk-dee-aggie (seedskadee, river of the prairie grouse/hen) for a reason-
What a thing to get to see. I'm going to see if I can find some after work- I saw a goodly bunch of sharptails last week while shed hunting.
MLH, its called the chicken dance here is the visual on your thought - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY2bvOPiy08
Great video!
Great music!
Cool video it must have took a long time to get that footage.
Absolutely amazing video. I've seen Sharpies dance before and just spent the better part of a couple weeks watching sage grouse dance, but I have never seen anyone capture it so vividly.
Leks are very interesting to me.
Man that's fricken cool I had no idea that they did that!
That is nice to see. I saw for the first time in my 40+ years a Ruffed Grouse doing his best to impress a female just last week. I live in a suburban area backing onto wildlands and I often see grouse and snowshow hares passing through. This particular pair were on opposite sides of the street. The female in a crabapple tree and the male at the end of my neighbour's driveway.
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Man those birds can dance amazing video!!!
Wow.. For being a lifelong resident of upland bird country, I have never seen that and didn't realize what kind of show it was. That is impressive. Good choice for the background music as well.. quite the experience..
On a seperate note, can we always get videos on this site from Vimeo? It's one of the only ones that has worked on my work computer. (Don't tell my boss)
That was stunning. I have to wonder if some prairie Indian dances were based on grouse courtship rituals.
Those dudes can really cut a rug, uh, lek.
MLH, I wonder that too- The Shoshone probably called the Green River Sisk-dee-aggie (seedskadee, river of the prairie grouse/hen) for a reason-
What a thing to get to see. I'm going to see if I can find some after work- I saw a goodly bunch of sharptails last week while shed hunting.
Great video!
Great music!
Absolutely amazing video. I've seen Sharpies dance before and just spent the better part of a couple weeks watching sage grouse dance, but I have never seen anyone capture it so vividly.
Leks are very interesting to me.
MLH, its called the chicken dance here is the visual on your thought - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY2bvOPiy08
Cool video it must have took a long time to get that footage.
Man that's fricken cool I had no idea that they did that!
That is nice to see. I saw for the first time in my 40+ years a Ruffed Grouse doing his best to impress a female just last week. I live in a suburban area backing onto wildlands and I often see grouse and snowshow hares passing through. This particular pair were on opposite sides of the street. The female in a crabapple tree and the male at the end of my neighbour's driveway.
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