Friday, April 30, 2010

Drumming Snipe

Hi all,
recent news reports suggest the way that snipe make a drumming noise. Quote ...

"A team of UK researchers found the birds' tail feathers "flapped like a flag" in the wind, something that had not been seen before.

When attempting to attract a potential mate, the males perform a dive to create the drumming noise.

The findings appear in the Journal of Experimental Biology."

And these "researchers" actually get paid for this!! Or am I a bigot? (there's that word again)

2 comments:

jasonov said...

theres a job i'd like...researching already known facts...

David Sutcliffe said...

Didn't we discover that Bruce - way back in 1970!