POLK COUNTY, Minn. – It’s a cold, frosty morning on the prairie, and like he has done so many spring mornings over the past five decades, Dan Svedarsky is out before dawn to witness a prairie rite of ...

Dawn is the best time to boogie if you’re a greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). In spring, as many as 70 of the iconic male grouse will gather at each dance floor (called a “lek”) before ...

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 ...

You can locate these dancing grounds by going into good grouse country before dawn on a dead calm morning and stopping along the roadside every quarter mile or so. Then get out of the vehicle and ...