Lekking

Manakins - Behaviour and Ecology - Reproduction
... Many manakin species have spectacular lekking courtship rituals, which are especially elaborate in the genera Pipra and Chiroxiphia ... Lekking polygyny seems to have been a characteristic of the family's original ancestor, and the associated sexual selection led to an adaptive radiation in which relationships can be traced by ... An evolutionary explanation connecting lekking to fruit-eating has been proposed ...

Lek Mating - Lekking Species
... for Black Grouse (orrlek) and for Capercaillie (tjäderlek), and lekking behaviour is quite common in birds of this type, such as Sage Grouse, Prairie Chicken ... among ethologists as to whether the lekking behaviour shown by animals of widely different groups should really be treated as the same, and in particular ...

Ruff - Behaviour - Mating
... The Ruff is one of the few lekking species in which the display is primarily directed at other males rather than to the females, and it is among the small percentage of birds ... are very site-faithful 90% return to the same lekking sites in subsequent seasons, the most dominant males being the most likely to reappear ... their feminine appearance, the faeders migrate with the larger 'normal' lekking males and spend the winter with them ...

Sharp-tailed Grouse - Habitat Selection - Lekking Habitat
... grass (Hesperostipa comata), and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) on lekking grounds in the Sheyenne National Grassland in North Dakota ... The invasion of woody vegetation and trees into lekking arenas also caused displaying males to abandon leks (Moyles 1981 Swenson 1985) ...

Sharp-tailed Grouse - Management
... The management of lekking habitat and winter habitat are not as clearly defined in the literature as nesting and brood rearing habitat assessment and management ... Lekking habitat can be managed by burning, mowing, clear cutting, and grazing across the entire range of the sharp-tailed grouse subspecies ... with increased in aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) on lekking sites and the number of displaying males present ...