More unusual bird behaviour

To:	Geoffrey Dabb <>
Subject:	More unusual bird behaviour
From:	martin butterfield <>
Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:42:14 +1000

Possibly also, in your area more than most, your bird is attempting to recover from having its head stood on by a rampant Peacock.

The odd behaviour we have observed twice in recent days involves a great deal of tail-quivering. Once seen on our lawn and once in a tree. The nearest interpretation I can make for this is the Copulation invitation behaviour described in HANZAB. The birds timing was off in two ways:

they should join Margaret's list of birds that have lost their calendars; and
they chose one of the very few periods when there was no other magpie around "to oblige".

Martin

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

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