Lesser Prairie-Chicken Sounds

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Colorado, April 24, 2013Recorded by Andrew Spencer

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Calls

The low booming of displaying males (sometimes called yodeling, bubbling, or gobbling) is made by air passing through the syrinx and amplified by the esophageal air sacs. Displaying males also give cackles, whoops, squeaks, whines, and clucks. Females cluck and cackle, particularly when in conflict with other females at leks.

Other Sounds

Displaying males produce sounds by rapidly stamping their feet (16 times per second), shaking and fluttering their wings, and spreading their tails quickly.

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Species in This Family

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies(Order: Galliformes, Family: Phasianidae)

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