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 ...

It isn't easy to capture an up-close view of the outrageous, wing-flapping, foot-stomping, chest-puffing, guttural-moaning mating ritual of the sharp-tailed grouse that takes place at daybreak during ...

A male sharp-tailed grouse displays during a mating ritual on a lek, or mating grounds. In 2010 the DNR counted at least 70 leks across east-central Minnesota. This year that was down to just 18.

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 ...