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Long-Billed Curlews – Spring Birds I look Forward To

By Mia McPherson|March 14th, 2021|Categories: Birds, Long-billed Curlews|Tags: adult, breeding grounds, curlew, curlews, displaying, fighting, grasses, Long-billed Curlew, male, mating season, Numenius americanus, shorebirds, sparring, spring, territorial behavior|

Spring birds I look forward to seeing and hearing include Long-billed Curlews which should be arriving in northern Utah any day now.

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Greater Sage-Grouse in Wayne County, Utah

By Mia McPherson|November 19th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Conservation, Environment, Greater Sage-Grouse, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: adult, Centrocercus urophasianus, courtship behavior, courtship displays, displaying, female, Greater Sage-Grouse, grouse, hen, male, sage-grouse, sparring, upland terrestrial birds|

Since the snow has started to fall in the high country of Utah I have started thinking about Greater Sage-Grouse again.

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Chukars and Fighting for the Right to Mate

By Mia McPherson|March 15th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Chukars, Davis County, Utah|Tags: adult, aggressive, Agonistic Behavior, Alectoris chukar, battle, breeding behavior, breeding season, Chukar, chukars, dominant male, fighting, loser, mating, mating rights, nesting territory, pinned down, sparring, spring, territorial, upland terrestrial birds|

The behavior of the Chukars indicates that the males are already acting territorial and fighting for the right to mate.

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