Image description: A raptor, with it’s wings outspread, standing on a steeply slanted tree branch.

  • streetfestival@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Super cool-looking bird. I love the multi-coloured beak! It kind of looks like the caracara’s posing for you :P

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      10 months ago

      It was actually being harassed by a smaller bird that was driving it further and further down that branch until eventually it flew off.

      The wings were to help it keep balance whilst it kept shuffling further down :)

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        10 months ago

        Interesting! Sounds like mobbing from the smaller bird perhaps. I wonder if the caracara’s wings could’ve also been about “See? I’m big - F#$% off” ;P (ie, attempted intimidation, but it sounds less fun phrased that way)

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          10 months ago

          If it was mobbing, it was a mob of 1. But either way, it worked :)