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Neil
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Pied Avocets courtship behavior
« on: Apr 29th, 2006, 5:40pm » |
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On Thursday afternoon I watched the avocets at pond #16/17 until sunset as there was a "lot of love" in the air. The birds were pairing up everywhere and mating throughout the day and it seemed to be initiated by the females. Here is a digiscoped series showing the mating display. She has her head down low and her bottom up in the air while the male feeds next to her and grooms himself closeby.Neil
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Fred
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Re: Pied Avocets courtship behavior
« Reply #1 on: Apr 29th, 2006, 10:02pm » |
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Oh, thanks for the series and explanation.
I also saw similar behaviour of the bird but I thought she was trying to look into the water better. 
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Little Dolphin
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Re: Pied Avocets courtship behavior
« Reply #2 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 12:15am » |
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on Apr 29th, 2006, 5:40pm, Neil wrote:| The birds were pairing up everywhere and mating throughout the day and it seemed to be initiated by the females. |
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Very interesting finding. I thought it's usually the males that approach the ladies first when finding partners. Perhaps it's different in the actual mating process?
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