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When you see adorable little birds snacking on seeds at your bird feeder or flitting about like they're sewing a dress for Cinderella, don't be fooled. Those birds will gang up and turn on you in a tiny, fluttering heartbeat.
When birds detect a predator, they will start "mobbing" it. It's when small birds join together to fend off a larger bird. Small and large are relative terms here. Crows will band together to mob a hawk, and starlings will come together to mob a crow.
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The birds have an arsenal of moves at their disposal. They can hop and flap in the predator's face. They can dive bomb it. They can even shove it around a bit if they're feeling brave. Hummingbirds in a 1956 study showed that they are quite aware of their needlelike beaks. They zoom in toward the predator and feint at poking its eyeballs. If that doesn't make an owl flinch, nothing will.
In 2017, researchers found yet another reason for birds to mob: showing off for the ladies. According to a paper published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, male birds will mob less threatening predators more aggressively if there are female birds around to watch. So if the threat of danger is actually pretty low, the males will be particularly daring so the females can see what a great mate they'd be. If the predator is more dangerous, though, the males show off less and merely get the mobbing job done.
Feathers and Fools is an allegory about how wars can begin with a simple fear of others based on misconceptions. For some time the swans and peacocks have lived peacefully by a pond. One day the peacocks begin to contemplate the differences between themselves and their neighbours. This then leads to the fear that the swans may one day change the peacock's way of life. With this fear fully ingrained in their minds, they begin to build arms against their neighbours. "We shall hurl these arrows at their throats and slaughter everyone should they ever try to change our way of life."
Upon hearing this, the swans began to build arms against the peacocks in fear that they would be attacked. The fear grew as each group acquired more and more arms against each other. The peacocks soon mistook the action of a swan as an act of aggression and thus, a war began. "Soon cries filled the sir and blood darkened the earth." When all the feathers had settled, there were no birds to be found, both swans and peacocks had been destroyed.
Fox's antiwar story touches on a common issue many nations face and how humans handle the concept of war. As history has revealed, humans have begun wars oftentimes with very little knowledge of their opponents on the battlefield. The author artfully displays how mankind, although similar in many ways can decimate each other because of our lack of knowledge of the similarities amongst all groups. At the end of the story, Fox gives us a hopeful ending with the hatching of a lone peacock and a lone swan. These young birds meet and notice how similar they are and soon become friends. "So off they went together, in peace and unafraid, to face the day and share the world." Fox recognizes that present and future generations hold the keys to ending war.
The main characters, swans and peacocks are interchangeable with any nation, country, or people who have endured wars and their aftermaths. The book also emphasizes the importance of learning from history and not repeating it. Illustrator Nicholas Wiltons paintings bring out the beauty of the worlds of the peacock and swan. With acrylic jewel tone paints, he captures the beauty of the peacocks bright feathers and the swans graceful profile. As the story progresses, you can see the changes of the birds body language and actions helping bring emphasis on how the building toward war changes reactions and opinions of the two sides. The paintings were created to evoke the feeling of a folktale or fable with its aged looks and block style borders. Feathers and Fools is a wonderful book that could open the possibility for the discussion of topics such as war, the arms race, and similarities amongst people and their ways of lives. This book could be used at all levels for discussion.
The aptly named Snow Bunting is a bird of extremes. It may look like a feathered snowflake, but don't let its small size and immaculate white feathers fool you: The Snow Bunting is a tough survivor that breeds on frozen tundra in sub-zero temperatures. It's also the most northerly recorded passerine in the world.
Male and female Snow Buntings appear similar during the fall and winter, with gray- and brown-streaked backs, buffy wing and body feather edging, and reddish-buff collar and flanks. But later in the winter, males begin their transformation: They actively rub their drab plumage on the snow, wearing off feather tips to reveal their striking breeding plumage. When this transformation is complete, the male birds show a snow-white body contrasting with black back, wing tips, and central tail feathers.
Male Snow Buntings are the first migrant birds to return to the Arctic each spring, showing up in mid-March to early April when snow may remain on the ground and temperatures can still plunge to 30 degrees below zero. Males arrive early to claim and defend prime territories with suitable nesting sites. When the females arrive, around four to six weeks later, the males display for them with aerial acrobatics. As the Horned Lark and Sprague's Pipit do, male Snow Buntings soar high into the air and glide down again while singing beautiful warbling songs.
The growing chicks need a great deal of animal protein for muscle and feather development early in life. They feed heavily on insects and other small animals for the first few weeks, gradually shifting to a diet of green plant materials and fruits as they become larger. Chicks grow rapidly, increasing from about 1/2 ounce midgets when hatched to 17-20 oz. fully grown young birds 16 weeks later. That is a 38 to 46 fold increase in weight. At 17 weeks of age, a Ruffed Grouse is almost as large and heavy as it will ever be.
If you grind up the wing of a cardinal, the resulting powder will be red. If you do the same with a blue jay feather, the powder will be brown. You can see the same effect by simply turning around a blue feather.
The graphic below explains why you see blue in feathers. Visible light strikes the feathers and encounters the keratin-air nanostructures. The size of the nanostructure matches that of the wavelength of blue light. So, while all of the other colors pass through the feather, the blue does not. It is reflected, so you see blue. This is why ground up feathers turn brown. Once the nanostructures are destroyed, you see the bird's true colors. This is also why you do not see blue when the feather is turned around. The "prism" is now on the wrong side.
About the eagle feather (and all other raptor feathers,) yes, just possession of feathers of these birds is illegal. It doesn't matter how it came into your possession, feathers from all birds of prey are prohibited. Also most all songbirds are protected. In general, if there is a hunting season on a bird, you can have the feathers, but if there is no hunting season, then let them lay. Domestic birds are alright as well.
Observe your birds from about five to ten feet away, while on a perch or hanging upside down from the cage top, and flapping their wings. With this action you are able to distinguish three bands of grey on the underside of the wing. The top band is the feathers making up the ventral antebrachial coverts. The band directly below is the feathers of the minor ventral wing coverts. The last band consists of the primary remiges. In a hen these bands respectively "appear" grey, white and dark grey. The male "appears" grey, grey and dark grey. If you hold a bird, rather than viewing from five to ten feet away, and study this, your eyes "see" the actual different bands and you can not easily distinguish male from female.
Ideally five to eight pairs should be introduced to your property at one time. All birds are flocked together in a 4X4X8 (minimum size) flight, with a lot of perches. Being in a new place, no one bird has established dominance. Birds are vetted about two weeks after flocking. They remain together for approximately another two weeks, no less. (When all the birds are flocked in one flight, you must not be fooled by the hen. Hen greys are ladies of the night. A hen will solicit any and all males. I believe she may be checking to see who has the biggest....er....crop, capable of feeding her and their chicks. Males being what they are, are more than obliging, in feeding her. At this point, I remove all the males and place them in a flight right next to the hens. I leave them separated for no less than two weeks.
Africans are not very demonstrative birds and you have to read a lot into what they do. For example, I had two hens together for treatment with medication. Anyone seeing them would have thought they were the most loving pair of birds you could ever want. They were constantly together, sleeping, preening and eating. These activities in no way are proof of a compatible pair. They would never raise chicks. It took well over a year for one of them to accept a male. She was a very dominant hen. She is now one of my best breeders, but it was a lot of work. I never made that mistake again. I never house two birds of the same gender together.
You must be able to observe your birds without them knowing. The more pairs you have, the better the observations will be. Imported birds that aviculturists now own should be breeding by this time. If you purchase non-proven imported birds, know ahead of time that they should be re-paired. There is no such thing as a bonded imported pair now. If they are healthy, and not breeding, they are not compatible. x If you have a pair of imported birds that haven't bred yet, go home and find them new mates. There is no reason to wait. All the years and prime health going to waste. Do it! Don't fool yourself. We have all heard the story of the pair of Hyacinth macaws breeding in the pet store. They loved each other so much they just couldn't help themselves.
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