The countryside movement Chasse, Pêche, Nature et Traditions (Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions) said Abeille preferred "birds inflated with silicon to the fine geese filled with the corn of the Landes and the Périgord".
Culex prefers birds to people, and the birds in turn infect mosquitoes.
"If you were to ask me on a superficial level, I prefer birds to mammals.
They are a genial bunch of obsessives, the generous kind of collectors who prefer birds, trains and planes to butterflies, art and automobiles, because they can't take them with them, and are probably just as glad.
Most parasitize mammals, but at least 12 prefer birds, and 2 are regularly found on reptiles.
The added carotenoids made the bird's healthier, their bills redder, and the sex appeal greater--females preferred these birds to their drab siblings.
The observed preference could arise if subject birds preferred the smell of birds of the opposite sex (regardless of whether it was partner) to the smell of a bird of the same sex as the subject bird.
His predilection for nature over society developed early (he preferred photographing birds with his mentor, the crackerjack naturalist Paul Stoutenburgh, to chasing teenage girls) and is undiminished.
On the other hand, the conspicuousness hypothesis predicts that both treatments should be equally preferred by birds.
Under a scenario where birds preferred the smell of birds of the opposite sex the outcome would have been 15∶5, again similar to the observed results.
