[Tweeters] A new bird behavior discovery - for me

[Rob Faucett via Tweeters]

Watching Kestrels hunt boggles my mind.

Best birding . . .

Rob

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Rob Faucett
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Seattle, WA


> On Jul 28, 2024, at 8:06 PM, Robert O'Brien via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> 

> Yes, very cool.  Hard to beat that Kingfisher's prowess. 

> I first 'discovered' this phenomenon when taking photos of our Spotted Sandpiper, a notorious 'bobber'.  In this case of 'BackField in Motion' the head is stationary while the rest of the body handles the bobbing.  2 Photos: (skip the advertisement).

> https://www.flickr.com/photos/159695762@N07/53887910346/in/dateposted-public/

> Bob OBrien  Portland

> 

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM Nagi Aboulenein via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu <mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>> wrote:

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>> There are some amazing videos online, of Kingfishers holding their heads perfectly steady, while their perch is being pushed around by the wind. Here’s a link to one of them:

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>> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YpIm39GHeLw

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>> 

>> —

>> Nagi Aboulenein

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>> On Saturday, Jul 27, 2024 at 16:44, Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu <mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>> wrote:

>> Jim, it seems to me that birds are able to do that, hold their heads steady as they move their bodies in different positions. That long, flexible neck facilitates that greatly. Watch a coot or pigeon moving and note their bobbing head. They are holding their head still, presumably for better vision, as the body moves under it. 

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>> Dennis Paulson 

>> Seattle 

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>>> On Jul 27, 2024, at 12:41 PM, Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu <mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>> wrote: 

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>>> Hi, 

>>> 

>>> I've gone to Channel Drive (near La Conner) several times this week. I was attempting to 

>>> 

>>> get a picture of a swallow in flight and although a barely useful image it does show 

>>> 

>>> something I didn't know about. The swallow was making one of those tight, horizontal 

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>>> turns. The wings, tail, and body were all turned almost 90 degrees (think "vertical"). 

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>>> But the HEAD was still locked in the normal/horizontal orientation. A subsequent 

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>>> photo of a flock of Western Sandpipers showed the same thing. Perhaps this is a 

>>> 

>>> common bird behavior that I just haven't noticed before? Fun!!! - Jim 

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