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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah wildlife officials are offering people a chance to see the unique mating ritual of the sage grouse.
The event will be held just before sunrise Saturday at Emma Park, located about 13 miles north of Price in eastern Utah.
Biologists with the Department of Wildlife Resources will be on site with binoculars and spotting scopes to help people find the birds.
During their mating rituals, the male birds make a "bloop, bloop" sound, inflate their air sacs and perform a unique strut.
Biologists are warning people considering the trip that the birds can be scared away from the site by predators or bad weather.
The chicken-sized birds are found in 11 Western states. They're being considered for federal protections after their numbers plummeted in recent decades.
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