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 ...

Sharp-tailed grouse were back on their dancing ground in the middle of last week -- but their dancing was desultory -- perhaps because their feet were cold. The dancing ground, or lek, is snow-covered ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Monday that the hunting season for sharp-tailed grouse in east-central Minnesota will be closed this fall — and likely in future years — because ...

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 ...

Bird watchers, or those just curious to see the unique courtship dance of sharp-tailed grouse, now have an opportunity to watch this spectacle online. Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge, 12 miles ...

Wisconsin will host a sharp-tailed grouse hunting season this fall, the first since 2018. The decision to resume a hunt comes after four consecutive years of population increases of the ...

It would be appropriate, I think, to suggest that the sharp-tailed grouse is pre-eminently a bird of first light. Hardly has light appeared on a March morning than the grouse are active, nervous, ...

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 ...

A high wind and snow traveling sideways had quieted most of the early birds in the moments before dawn. Still, there was a hooting sound coming from the tall, dead grass and scattered sagebrush. It ...

Anyone who’s ever taken a drive along Idaho Highway 95 knows what sagebrush country looks like. It’s yellowish-brown, spans as far as the eye can see and often appears completely void of life upon ...

Montana is not known for its appreciation of sharp-tailed grouse. Deer, elk and bighorn sheep are the headline grabbers. So when Lance McNew first arrived in the state nine years ago, he felt like he ...

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