On 8/7/08, AlunFoto, discombobulated, unleashed: > >The skua is a rather aggressive bird, known to dive-bomb people coming >too close to the nest. However, at Runde the birds would also >frequently sit down on the path, and keep sitting until people come >quite close; up to a couple of meters. > >The most likely candidate explanations, imo, are: >1. This is a beginning predator diversion behaviour, that the bird >will fly up, move away from the nest and sit down again to lure people >away from the nest. >2. This is simple territory marking; "here i reign, don't step closer". >3. Predator inspection behaviour. >4. habituation to human presence.
5. They were tired after rather a long squawk. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
