I had seen a sooty grouse once before meeting this one, but it was very high up in a tree and I did not get to see it flash its yellow "come hither" patch or the "you are powerless to resist me" neon eyebrows. combine that with its strange and oddly hypnotic mating call, and you've got one fancy-ass fowl.

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