Spring Flings

[PHOTOESSAY] Spring on the prairie. A time of rejuvenation, renewal, rebirth. For prairie grouse, it's the season of courtship-of claiming territories, displaying and battling if need be. Sage grouse, dressed in their feathered finest, puff up and perform ritual dances. It's boom or bust on the leks, and the routines are show-stoppers. Sharptails put on similar displays. Bowing and strutting and swirling about. As do lesser prairie chickens-their tufted neck feathers emphasizing the point.

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