Waitwaitwait . I reckon I ’ve got it . It ’s the schnozzle , right ? It ’s totally the beak . No ? Well in that case , I have no musical theme – it looks like your touchstone - issuePiping Plover / centipede genetic hybrid to me .
Writesawkwardsituationist :
a female parent piping plover on massachusetts ’s plum island plumps her plume to offer warmth and protective cover to an increasing plurality of her chicks , hand fresh meaning to the musical phrase “ a fowl in the bosom ” . photo bymichael milicia
This method acting of brooding is plebeian to plovers , as is the downright noteworthy behavior seen here on the left wing . What you ’re looking at is a diversionary tactics known as the “ rugged backstage ” misdirection display . When plovers with offspring detect the presence of a predator , they will distance themselves from their newly hatched offspring and dissemble to have a broken offstage . [ Gif conform from a video by Dan Frieday , viaView From the Cape ]
biologist theorise that by feigning wound , the parent is attempting to draw attention away from its chicks – put itself in straightaway danger so that its offspring ( and genetic information ) might live to see another day . Below , a red - cap plover can be seen faking a wing wound after the videographer happend by chance event upon its nest :
In this video recording , a Wilson ’s plover can been seen simulate a humiliated offstage in guild to perturb an Eastern Coach Whip Snake skulking about in the locoweed :
More info on clever , clever plovershere .
[ Michael Milicia//awkwardsituationist//wnycradiolab ]
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