[wisb] Northern Harrier Sky Dance
- From: timarytm@xxxxxxxxx
- To: Wisbirdn Post <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:35:03 -0700 (PDT)
I posted earlier about watching a Northern Harrier in Taylor County. I found
this information on the behavior we witnessed:
Male harriers perform a spectacular courtship display flight of looping arcs
known as the "sky dance." Males engage in a series of steep dives and ascents,
which from the side look like a series of Us; the head-on view looks like a
series of barrel rolls. As many as 75 repetitions have been observed.
We had the side view. We saw him repeat about 12-14 times.
Mary Maertz
Outagamie County
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