Have you seen this?
https://www.facebook.com/leith.mckenzie.3/videos/vb.100001068646847/1114584911920453/?type=3&theater
I have now spent about the same amount of time on Horsefly LO as on Wagontire
LO. On Horsefly Mt, this feeding in place behavior is common - it seems that
they all do it. On Wagontire, I never observed this behavior, even though
there is a much higher density of Dusky Flycatchers on Wagontire Mt. Now you
could rightly say that this is a consequence of the lack of trees on Wagontire,
but does that not beg the question? It seems to me that these humble Empidonax
Flycatchers are demonstrating the same sort of adaptive behaviors that we
associate with Raven and Orca.
“Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull and an unlimited idea of
freedom.”
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
