These Australian birds build their love nests, or bowers, on the ground using twigs, rocks, bones, insects, leaves, and any colorful doodads they happen to find. The main part of the nest is built in an arch or tunnel with a walkway made of small objects leading into and out of the ...
There are obviously some similarities between the courtship and mating rituals of animals and our own; both involve display, preening, selection based on attributes, possessiveness, and a certain amount of crafty behaviour. We all know that finding the right mate is a complicated business, but so...
Experiments were conducted on captive birds in Thailand between 2006 and 2013, and pair behaviours such as allopreening and aggression were observed four times every day. In the first experiment, when each breeding pair was preparing to rear a new clutch, pairs were placed in a new aviary ...
As the pair gets closer to copulating, they will ramp down their aerial displays and instead focus more on intimate behaviors, such as sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, sitting in the nest structure together, preening and calling to one another. [In Photos: Birds of Prey] When the female is ...
Leclaire S, Merkling T, Raynaud C, Giacinti G, Bessière JM, Hatch SA, Danchin E (2011) An individual and a sex odor signature in kittiwakes? Study of the semiochemical composition of preen secretion and preen down feathers. Naturwissenschaften 98:615–624.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-01...