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One Frigid Morning On A Greater Sage-Grouse Lek

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-26T07:24:14-05:00November 21st, 2016|Categories: Birds, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, battling, breeding display, breeding grounds, Centrocercus urophasianus, filoplumes, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, lek, males, mating behavior, mating season, sage-grouse, sagebrush obligate, sagebrush sea, sagebrush steppe, yellow eye-combs|

It was 21°F one frigid morning on a Greater Sage-Grouse Lek and before dawn broke the grouse began to display on the high country sagebrush steppe in Wayne County, Utah.