[Tweeters] Video of Sharp-tailed Grouse Lek

[Carla Conway via Tweeters]

Very nice, thank you for sharing! 😀


On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM RW Hamlyn via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> On a trip to Northern Nebraska last March, we visited a Lek or dance

> ground for competing male Sharp-tailed Grouse.  The video we put together

> includes the most aggressive fight we have seen in lekking birds, starting

> around the two minute mark.   The fight is shown in slow motion.  The slide

> show at the end of the video include photos of the blind we used to observe

> the grouse as well as some of the interaction between the birds.

>

> Sharp-tailed Grouse Lek  https://youtu.be/pi0r0sSra1Y

>

> Ray & Dory Hamlyn

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