The more I watch birds, the more I enjoy being with them, the more conviced
I become that your average "sweet little dickie-bird" is not much more than
a street thug in his/her behaviour to others. Squabbling and aggression
seem to be the default setting for an awful lot of them.
Richard
Montreal
On 7/2/09, Ted Floyd <
tedfloyd57@...> wrote:
>
> Hello, BirdChatters.
>
>
> Yesterday, for example, I made an effort to pay attention and I noticed
> Bushtit-on-Black-headed Grosbeak violence, American Robin-on-House Finch
> violence, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-on-Bushtit violence--all during the
> course of 1 hour of observation. Meanwhile, an aerial aggregation of dozens
> of White-throated Swifts, 2 American Kestrels, 2 Red-tailed Hawks, and 1
> Peregrine Falcon was perfectly well behaved.
>
>
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