greater sage-grouse

Not the best photo, but it captures my first and so far only sighting of Greater Sage-Grouse (lifer #407). On our way back from Idaho (where I'd seen my lifer Northern Shrike two days before), my classmates and I spent the night at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge so we, accompanied by an...

This is another male in a different position, showing its yellow-brown air sacks. It is 'booming' them somehow. The sound carries a long distance and is reminescent of the call of a bittern, at least I think so.

This is one of at least 12 male Greater Sage-Grouses at a lek. This is not a very good photo because the birds were nearly a quarter of a mile away, but there don't seem to be any others in the gallery. They are awesome birds! And a lifer for me!