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Black grouse lek with hissing and cooing - nature landscape painting - earth.fm

Black grouse lek with hissing and cooing

Artist: Pete Smith
HIghlands, Scotland
Notes:
This is a recording from a black grouse lek in the highlands of Scotland. The lek happens in Spring, a season when males display and compete with each other making strange cooing and hissing sounds.

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