I am fascinated by the diversity of mother nature. And this was abundantly clear to me the other day while I sat in a tiny chair blind, in the dark, waiting for the sun to come up and for a ruffed ...

Apr. 8—GRAND FORKS — It's quite the spectacle. Every spring, male prairie grouse — prairie chickens and sharptails — gather on mating grounds called leks and put on elaborate displays in an effort to ...

If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush. The explosion of feathers and wings and all thing bird both will startle you and, in a ...

As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

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BISMARCK — There a four grouse species in North Dakota, and three of them — sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse and greater prairie chickens — are in attendance on leks or dancing grounds this time of ...