Explore: Bird Behavior

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understory had a significant impact on mobbing behavior, i.e., the denser the understory vegetation, the more birds responded to mobbing calls. That is to say

Breeding behaviors of birds encompass a range of activities associated with the reproductive cycle of birds, from courtship to the fledging of young. These

Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin. A bird may hold a single ant in its beak to

study scientifically in birds. In general, birds have relatively large brains compared to their head size. Furthermore, bird brains have two-to-four times

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong) are the sounds produced by birds that

wing-assisted incline running or from proavis (pouncing) behavior. The fundamentals of bird flight are similar to those of aircraft, in which the aerodynamic

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air), pouncing (bird drops to ground and takes prey) and pursuing (flying bird takes insects from air). In hawking behavior, a bird will watch for prey

Egg tossing or egg destruction is a behavior observed in some species of birds where one individual removes an egg from the communal nest. This is related