There are actually two possibilites here. The description of a "womp" more closely fits the ruffed grouse, a shorter, lower and more rapid note that sounds like what it is" the whomp of wings, like a muffled drum. The blue grouse makes a longer, higher and more musical note, less rapid and fewer in each series like something between a bullfrog and a great horned owl. Ruffed is more common the the lower reaches of the eastern sierra, but its possible.


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