Cedar Waxwing Courtship, Passing the Berry Back and Forth

[Donkees]

Gloria @Lucent 508
Central Park, NYC

''Shadbush right now are heavy with fruit & Cedar Waxwings are taking full advantage. This couple is engaging in courtship behavior of passing the berry back & forth at least half a dozen times''

[Bayard]

1. Fascinating

Never heard of this. "Play the berry game with me buster or you're getting nowhere."

[Donkees]

2. Sometimes passing a flower petal

During courtship, males and females hop towards each other, alternating back and forth and sometimes touching their bills together. Males often pass a small item like a fruit, insect, or flower petal, to the female. After taking the fruit, the female usually hops away and then returns giving back the item to the male. They repeat this a few times until, typically, the female eats the gift.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/cedar_waxwing/lifehistory

[Bayard]

5. So romantic!

[Easterncedar]

3. It's sweet! And relatable

Just like courting humans do

I’ve watched them pass wild strawberries here in Maine

[sanatanadharma]

4. "Conscious-being' embodied as birds being brilliant in their innate effulgence

'Conscious-being' embodied as birds relating one to the other, two reflecting mirrors of innate knowledge.
"Shall we be 'one-conscious-being'?

The activities of living-beings are variations of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending desires (and in combinations).
"Conscious-being' embodied as birds being brilliant in the innate effulgence of bird-brains.

[Donkees]

6. Bird Embryos Vibrate to Warn One Another of Danger before They Hatch

The egg-bound developing animals are more attuned to the outside world than previously thought

BY JENNIFER LEMAN

Before they hatch, developing baby gulls seem to prepare for the worst when they hear the piercing predator-warning calls of nearby adults—and may also alert their less-developed nestmates.

Yellow-legged gull embryos exposed to the warnings of adults and neighboring embryos that had not been exposed to the sounds both displayed a series of behavioral and physiological changes when newly hatched, according to a study published Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution. By vibrating, the embryos exposed to the call appeared to transfer knowledge of the threat to the others in their nest—the first time such a behavior has resulted in observed changes to clutchmates.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-embryos-vibrate-to-warn-one-another-of-danger-before-they-hatch/

[AllaN01Bear]

7. i love you, i love you too. i love you. i love you too.