Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-tailed hawks sharing prey?

2022-03-22 Thread Dave Nutter 
Sounds like courtship to me. Or maybe it’s “maintaining a pair bond”. Or you 
could call it very practical help. A male demonstrates that he is a worthy 
provider by giving the female food, which is a big part of his job if she 
chooses him as a partner. For their best reproductive success, he brings food 
for the young, he brings food for her when she is brooding, he brings food when 
she is incubating, and maybe even when she is producing eggs. 

- - Dave Nutter

> On Mar 22, 2022, at 3:35 PM, Christopher Sperry  wrote:
> 
> Anyone have thoughts about want I just witnessed in my back yard in Ithaca: 2 
> Red-tailed hawks vocalizing loudly from different trees – one with a mouse or 
> chipmunk, flying to different perches until the one with the prey offered it 
> to the 2nd hawk (no opposition).  Was this likely an example of dominance, or 
> pairing behavior, or something else?
>  
> Chris Sperry
>  
>  
>  
> From: [email protected] 
>  on behalf of Peter Saracino 
> 
> Date: Monday, March 21, 2022 at 6:11 PM
> To: [email protected] , Cayuga 
> birds 
> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Lesser yellowlegs
> 
> This message originated from outside the Ithaca College email system.
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> 2 lesser yellowlegs at corners of Rt. 89 and 31mucklands
> Pete Sar
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[cayugabirds-l] Red-tailed hawks sharing prey?

2022-03-22 Thread Christopher Sperry 
Anyone have thoughts about want I just witnessed in my back yard in Ithaca: 2 
Red-tailed hawks vocalizing loudly from different trees – one with a mouse or 
chipmunk, flying to different perches until the one with the prey offered it to 
the 2nd hawk (no opposition).  Was this likely an example of dominance, or 
pairing behavior, or something else?

Chris Sperry



From: [email protected] 
 on behalf of Peter Saracino 

Date: Monday, March 21, 2022 at 6:11 PM
To: [email protected] , Cayuga birds 

Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Lesser yellowlegs
This message originated from outside the Ithaca College email system.

2 lesser yellowlegs at corners of Rt. 89 and 31mucklands
Pete Sar
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