David James wrote:
Would you say the shy birds live on the ground and non-shy birds in the
>trees?
Possibly, but it could just be an anthrocentric bias: birds that live in
trees are easier to approach because they are looking out of the tree in a
wide band and humans only take up 5-6ft of that, whereas ground dwelling
birds are looking up and whenever a human approaches he or she always
occupies the first 5-6ft of that view.
Also it's easier to look into a tree (especially a gum tree) and see a bird,
rather than into thick vegetation (cf grasswrens :-))
John Leonard
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