Four Quick Simple Rules
#1 - Please try and tag photos with the behavior using SLB-behavior {example SLB-foraging}
#2 - Please do not include birds not really doing anything - We LOVE great bird photos but the point is to make this group stand out and display bird behaviors
#3 - No digitally altered photos!! Photo enhancement is OK (as in contrast, lightening, etc.) but no manipulation that changes the reality of the photo
#4 - Use your best judgement first on photos - this group has a lot of members and a lot of photos so it is hard with a limited number of moderators and admins to do all the work
**Thank you for being a member of Flickr's top (only?) bird behavior group**
Our goal is simple: Display the behaviors of birds through photographs.
Please include any pictures that show bird behavior, specifically but not limited to the following: flying, hunting, feeding, nesting, preening, bathing, mating, displaying, singing, etc.
If you add a picture that is not quite what we are looking for, we may remove it. But please, don't despair, you can add it to the Birds as Art group. No hard feelings, we just want to have a focus on behavior.
There is currently a 2 picture per day posting limit which can be changed if necessary.
Feel free to tag your pictures with secretlifeofbirds and also any behavior(s) being displayed.
INVITE OTHERS!
Please help promote this group by inviting photos showing bird behaviors by copying the following code:
================================================ <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/lifeofbirds/"><img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/crane_eye.jpg" width="24" height="24"></a> <b>The Secret Life of Birds Wants Your Photo!!</b>
Please post your <b>Bird Behavior photo at the only group focused exclusively on the behavior of birds</b>, the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/lifeofbirds/">Secret Life of Birds</a>
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The invitation will look like this:
The Secret Life of Birds Wants Your Photo!!
Please post your Bird Behavior photo at the only group focused exclusively on the behavior of birds, the Secret Life of Birds
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If you wish, when commenting on a photo in the Secret Life of Birds Pool, just add this code with your comment:
================================================ <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/lifeofbirds/"><img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/crane_eye.jpg" width="24" height="24"></a> <b> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/lifeofbirds/">Seen in the Secret Life of Birds</a>
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It will look like this:
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If you'd like to become a moderator/recruiter for this group, send us a FlickrMail! We're looking to make this group grow and need your help!
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List of Bird Behaviors If you have any to add, please comment in the bird behavior thread; also, if you have a more scientific term (I'm not a scientist) for the behavior listed, please let us know. Please add a tag for the bird behavior(s) depicted in your picture.
Anting - picking up insects and other objects and rubbing them over their feathers, or allowing insects to crawl about on skin and feathers. Bathing - Water (see also dust-bathing)
Begging (Nestlings)
Begging (humans) Branchlings - post-fledgling birds that sit away from nest and beg for food [thanks from Moderator hollisterbulldawg Breeding - Copulation (see also Courtship Display) Brooding - sitting on the eggs as well as protecting young (such as shading) and taking care of young in the nest (minus the actual feeding of young) Caching Food - any form of storing food for later consumption Camouflage - using their natural coloration to their advantage within surroundings ( - see also Freezing and Hiding ) Carrying Food Carrying Young - such as young loons riding on mother's back Communicating - see also calling and singing Courtship Display any type of displaying for a mate or attempting to attract a mate Cross Species Interaction - any type of interaction between different species of birds Curiosity - as in a bird investigating something new Defending Territory - (see also Territorial Display) Drinking Drying Dust-bathing Excavating - the making of any type of cavity nest such as in a tree or river bank Feather Eating Feeding - any eating of food
- Berry Eating
- Carrion Eating
- Fish Eating
- Insect Feeding
- On Feeders
- Seed Eating Feeding Young Fighting Fishing Flocking Flying - ( see also Soaring ) Food Ejection -as done by Owls, Grebes, flycatchers, corvids, herons (and more!) Freezing - (from predators) - ( - see also Camouflage and Hiding ) Greeting Gathering - see also Grouping or Flocking Grouping - see also Flocking Gular Fluttering - also known as Panting Hiding ( - see also Camouflage and Hiding ) Hunting - ( see also fishing Interacting - see also Courtship Display or Fighting or Communicating Landing - (see also Take-off) Leaf-Gleaning - eating insects and grubs off of leaves (common among wood warblers) Ledgelings as suggested by member gimlack Mantling - covering up food so another bird can't see/take it Mineral Lick - such as parrots eating clay Mobbing - cooperatively attacking or harassing a potential predator Migrating - seasonal movement of a bird not breeding within your area Nest-Building - building a nest or carrying nest materials Panting Pirating - stealing from another bird Preening Roosting -Grouping Scratching Singing and Calling Soaring - (see also flying) Sunning/Warming Swimming Take-off (see also Landing) Territorial Display - (see also Defending Territory) Walking/Running Yawning
