behavior.
Gary
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Killdeer Courtship at Myers
One
One recent good description of poses, etc. is the Stokes Nature Guides, "Guide
to Bird Behavior", vol. 2.The original Saunders source is Saunders, Aretas
Andrews, "The Summer Birds of Central New York Marshes" Roosevelt Wild Life
Bulletin. vol. 3 , pp. 335-475. 1926Also A. C. Bent's "Life Hist
I've seen Killdeer doing this and similar behaviors a number of times early in
the breeding season. Sometimes in pairs, sometimes several birds together. My
impression is that it has both territorial and courtship components.
Pairs do something similar during a "nest scrape display"...the male
