Birds Can Have Peculiar Courtship Patterns
Sitting at my table, I’m delighted to see the red-belly pecking away at the suet. It’s always a male so I presume it’s the same one who visits me day after day. His red belly seems very obvious now, in wintertime. There were certainly many days when I wondered about the name — perhaps it’s only that the red-headed had already been used. Where’s his mate, I wondered. I already knew that flickers tend to mate for life, only take separate winter vacations. Is that the story for my red-belly as well? Two articles from Living Bird have been sitting on my desk. The first, ...