Because I'm an urban dweller, I don't get a lot of time to observe Kingbirds, so your message makes me curious. Are Kingbirds uniformly aggressive toward other birds, or do they just have a long-standing feud with particular species? It makes some sense, of course with species that are either known to harm the young of other birds, or known to be in competition for food. I assume the issue could be either, with crows. But what could be their problem with Pileated Woodpeckers, since they don't favor the same kind of nesting/foraging sites? Linda
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good Morning: The Austin Country Club in Mower County sits next to the > Hormel Nature Center on the east side of Austin. We generally have around > four pairs of Eastern Kingbird residents in the summer on the golf course > and of course they are always chasing the crows. Pileated Woodpeckers are > residents too and are seen flying around the course often. They nest in the > nature center. Yesterday while golfing I looked up and there was the > Pileated flying by with the Eastern Kingbird flying on top of him and > harassing him like they do the crows. That was a new one! > Bob Jessen, Austin > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird > Unsubscribe: %(user_optionsurl)s > > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
