Both plovers and redshanks exhibit this behavour too. It seems to be quite common among waders. However, there seems to be no mention of this among gulls or jaegers...
Jostein 2008/7/8 Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM, AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Killdeer are famous for feigning a broken wing as a distraction > display, but I also frequently see them feigning nesting--they'll > squat down on a patch of ground as if brooding. They hold the > position until you get close, then fly off. The intent, presumably, > is to get predators to waste time looking for nests that don't exist. > It seems plausible to me that the skuas are doing the same thing. > > -- > 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. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.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.
