This is one of the scariest sounds of the wilderness. Countless heart attacks experienced stalking the woods and hearing one. Could be used in horror films.

I have one out back of my house every summer and for the longest time I thought someone way up in the woods was trying to start a generator or something. Little did I know it was actually a little chicken sized bird trying to attract a date, LOL.

Just heard this in the woods and was amazed at the performance. Nature is truly incredible.

My friends and I were trying so hard to figure out what that "low-dropped basketball" sound was and we found this. Thank you

For the last two years, we’ve thought it was the neighbors water pump!!!!!! Then my husband saw the grouse do his thing this morning!!!!!

kinda sounds like a motor starting

I've been hearing this in the forest in back of my house for weeks and couldn't figure out what it was. Now I know. Thanks! Nice video.

Thats how I start my day, every day, have my own drumming log in the back.

My parents lived in Bland Virginia and I’d spend a lot of time in the forest there looking for bones and exploring. I’d always hear this motor sound like a generator. I immediately thought it was someone’s cooking moonshine or meth in the woods. When I’d walk towards this motor sound there’s always be nothing there and it would stop. It was the strangest thing. This happened at least six times. So a few years later I get the idea to Google “strange motor sound in woods” and this bird called a grouse kept coming up so I KZfaq searched it and that was the sound!!! I never would have thought it was a bird because the only thing it sounded like was man made in everything I knew about nature at the time. So fascinating and cool to have years long mystery final solved. And I learned I wasn’t crazy and the sound was very real. Lol

I would so love to see this in slow motion to observe exactly what they're doing with their wings. It looks like it's alternating up and down. Thanks for the great video, Luke.

Wow this video is so satisfying

Imagine not knowing what that was camping in the middle of the night.

So cool to hear that in the woods in the early spring. Ive actually hear it in November too . I`m like that bird is a little excited for spring to arrive. hehe

Literally sounds just like my Polaris quad .. amazing 😅

So stunning

Excellent video and really cool to hear the drumming. Definitely sounds like a motor starting!

It's a blessing to find something like this, thank you so so much for sharing it!! and it's a nice resolution, the place and bird looks beautiful even though it was short 💕🥺

I love these birds

Amazing nice video. Beautiful bird, beautiful woods.

Omfg this is what I’ve been hearing in the woods around me. Imagine being zooted off the pen thinking an atv was starting up but it’s just a lil grouse

Sounds like someone starting a lawn mower in the middle of the woods 😂😂😂

Awesome video, absolutely in love with these chickens

Beautiful video. 🩷

I learned about this only recently. I had heard the sound all my life as I live in mountainous western Oregon. I had been told as a teenager it was distant rabbits doing much the same thing. Turns out both are correct, but they don't sound the same lol.

Thank you for taking the time to share this.

So nice!

thank you so much, I thought someone was trying to start up our lawn mower in the middle of the night

I've heard this all my life. I thought it was someone having trouble starting their lawnmower.

Once in my life, 20 to 25 years ago, I heard and saw that from a grouse. I was in the highlands of West Virginia.

Awesome

It makes me feel like there is a glitch in the matrix - that drumming sounds like me trying to start the mower. Those sneaky lawn mowers aren’t to be trusted

One question are these things loud because I heard this and it scared the crap outta me and we had no idea what it was. Mistaken it as my heartbeat lol

that bird is great

I’ve been hearing this noise for months and thought it was my neighbour starting his vehicle! Now I know lol

Excellent Capture! WOW.

me in the forest when I hear this YOOOO LET ME PLAY SOME PING PONG WITH Y'ALL

I tried figuring out what this sound was for YEARS. The video doesn't show it but you can hear the thump frik VERY far away. Can't even hear the feathers just the thump.

That is a very good grouse.

Very cool, ive always wondered what it looks like when they drum.

cool

I was trying to figure out what that sound was in the UP. Thank you internet!

I can't believe it we got stranded after car got stuck 28km down a logging road and heard this and thought someone with a quad had broke down we were yelling for help at a bird yes a bird when we thought it was someone

I thought someone had a motor behind my house for years!

This was really cool ! :)

I've always thought this was someone starting an engine. A friend told me, that it was a bird. I am just here to confirm.

Now I finally know who was driving an ATV around at 4am

haha grouse go brrrrrr

Nature's engine

So listen for an old lawn mower or tractor starting up where there shouldn't be one, got it 😂

Just heard a few of these guys in the woods and had to come back here to confirm 🐓 🥁

Amazing, they’re also tasty.

sounds like a teeny little motorbike revving up

My husband and I live in upstate New York. For year's we have been trying to figure out this sound. We thought something was wrong with the septic system or something. Finally, my father came here and we heard it and he told us what it was! 😂I feel so silly now!

Bruh...never knew what that thumping noise was

What a bird

I used to think it was someone trying to start up a 4 wheeler or something haha

Heard one while walking and thought something was running at us from the woods, didn’t help that we just saw a giant grizzly either.

Dropping the basketball

when do they normally do this? spring? fall? all the time?

Nice vido

i understand why people are scared of the sound it makes, it sounds like something is running at you

So this is what I’m hearing everywhere in my forest

sounds like an engine revving up

It's always a log it seems. I'm sure only for vantage point I would guess.

What bird call is 00:00-00:03?

The only harmless animal that will startle you when you’re walking in the woods when it flies away. They sound like a helicopter

Just found out I was stupid and thought someone was trying to start their 4 wheeler all weekend

the muscles must be very powerfull i think the wings can create some amazing pain when you would be slapped

Sounds like my landrover on a cold day

location?

MOTOR STARTING / HELICOPTER

Well I went to Yosemite and I was face to face with a Doe and 3 Fawns

sounds like an atv motor.

was that the fart? that was an old motor about to start and farts in the time this name was given must have been something

Anyone get the Famous Grouse tune going in their head?

…when the mower won’t turn over a couple of grouse take notice

I was camping and we heard this but we thought it was a generator trying to start

You've just added a 🚁 noise

❤ muffler chickens

TINY FEATHERED HARLEY DAVIDSON

Looks like a sound of a helicopter to me

sounds like a steel ball bouncing

Last time I went hunting, in the middle of a forest I heard this, turn my safety off and hold my gun military style ready to pop off, let's just say I got spook so bad I just went home never know what it is until I ask a friend, I got roasted for being a pussy but honestly it was my first time hearing it

Me and my dad went to go hunting today

Ready for takeoff captain!

bedug

Lawn mower

Sounds like a lawn mower

that's lunch

Ready for takeoff.

I shot a grouse with my Ak 47 with a hollow point round, it basically blew up, feathers and guts.