Video: sharp-tailed grouse mating dance inspired Native Americans

WILDLIFE WATCHING — In paying tribute to Washington’s seven grouse species in my Sunday Outdoors feature stories, I mention that the mating display of the sharp-tailed grouse inspired some traditional dances of Native Americans.

See for yourself above.

• S ee slow-motion video of a sharptail male dominance battle.

Observe other grouse that inhabit Washington in the following videos:

• Sage grouse mating displays .
• Dusky (blue) grouse mating display .
• Ruffed grouse drumming .
• Spruce grouse courting , although it does not show the male’s difficult-to-film flying “wing clap.”
• White-tailed ptarmigan calling.