Driving slowly down a forest road I noticed a Ruffed Grouse on the roadside. When I stopped, she ran out into the road and did a broken wing act shown here, then ran, crying, into the bush. A few seconds later several downy young raced across the road. Grouse do this broken wing act along with the call of an injured bird to lure predators away from their young.

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