[wisb] Re: Interesting Barn Swallow behavior
- From: Laurie and Jan cieszynski <cieszyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:01:53 -0500
Bernie, I had the same thing happen with cardinals last year. It was a
family and one of the young hit my picture window and made it into the
drive in front of my house and died. The family all landed by him and
circled him frantically chirping and then they would flutter a bit and
land back down by him. This went on for a couple of minutes and then i
went out and removed the dead bird from the street.
Laurie Cieszynski
Omro, Winnebago County
On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:39 PM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
>
> This morning there was a dead Barn Swallow in front of Milwaukee's
> Discovery Center. Cause of death looked to have been a window strike.
>
> Several other swallows were circling low over the dead bird,
> chattering noisily. Then three of them landed on the sidewalk and
> more or less took turns gingerly walking up to the dead bird,
> chattering at it, and flying away. They seemed confused, like they
> couldn't understand what the dead bird was doing. This whole process
> was repeated one or two more times.
>
> I don't want to anthromorphisize too much, but the swallows seemed
> genuinely concerned/distressed about their immobile comrade.
>
> Interesting...
>
> Bernie Sloan
> Milwaukee
>
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