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FEATURE - Moorhuhn: Diese Paare spüren den Frühling
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mark Hamblin/REX/Shutterstock (5665535h)
Male black grouse at a lek site
Black grouse displaying at a lek site, Bramear, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - 27 Apr 2016
*Full story: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/s9gt
It required a 2.30 a.m. alarm call and a very chilly wait for photographer Mark Hamblin to capture these images of black grouse displaying at a lek site. Following his very early wake-up Mark navigated snow-covered roads to a remote moorland location where he has set up a hide overlooking the ritual display grounds of male black grouse, which come here to display each spring. A lek is a gathering of males who engage in competitive displays in an effort to find a mate. He comments: "The moorland was covered in several centimetres of snow as I got into the hide under torchlight in the dark. "The birds arrived on the lek at just after 04.00. Barely visible except for their powder puff white tail feathers. "There was lots of fighting and calling, which consist of a series of rasping calls and strange bubbling noises"
(FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
(c) Dukas