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In lieu of catblogging
I give you the red-winged blackbird I saw in top of a tree on Wednesday evening.
For more on the species, I recommend All About Birds. This guy might be the envy of Eliot Spitzer (or perhaps not):
The Red-winged Blackbird is a highly polygynous species, with one male having up to 15 different females making nests in his territory. In some populations 90% of territorial males have more than one female. But, from one quarter to up to half of the young in “his” nests do not belong to the territorial male. Instead they have been sired by neighboring males.
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1. Modulator&hellip replies at 14th March 2008, 3:32 pm :
Friday Ark #182…
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