Aesop was quite the fable-teller, but was he a student of bird behavior as well?
'Flock of birds' behavior; you find it throughout nature.
I write software that enables people to contribute observations of bird populations and behavior in human-modified as well as natural environments.
I write software that enables people to contribute observations of bird populations and behavior in human-modified as well as natural environments via citizen science websites such as Project FeederWatch, Nestwatch, Celebrate Urban Birds, and via our mobile apps.
The ancient wisdom of fretting obsessively over bird behavior has obtained the vindication of modern science.
As a result, studies rely on lengthy, labor-intensive observation of birds simply coming and going from their nests in order to explore nest building behavior, the physiology of incubation, chick feeding behavior, sex ratios of parental care, time budgets of breeding birds, and comparative work on parental investment and life histories [e.g. 3], [5], [6], [7].
They had observed a textbook ideal, a perfect demonstration of ordinary bird behavior.
Our observations of ant, spider, and bird behavior at these sites suggests that competitor removal did not deter predator foraging on plants with a 10 cm removal zone.
The dream of human flight must have begun with observation of birds soaring through the sky.
As bird behavior goes, the displays of bowerbirds are among the weirdest.
Those observations seem to match the observations of bird watchers in southeastern Connecticut.
