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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_0f2Sy6A37fpIoaNEW/KNIA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Yes, of course, that's a very familiar behaviour. What I reported was quite different. The bird didn't move back and forth; it just stood on one foot and rapidly patted the ground with the other. Peter Phil Schappert wrote: > At 9:26 AM -0300 10/12/10, Peter Payzant wrote: >> I was watching a Hermit Thrush at our place in Waverley today, as it >> was foraging in a weedy meadow-ish area. I was amused to see it >> rapidly patting the ground with one foot, pause, and then move on a >> few inches and try again. Clearly it was hoping to disturb resting >> insects in the leaf litter. This foot-patting technique is often seen >> in sandpipers, but I think that this is the first time that I have >> seen it in a passerine. > > Have you never watched white-throats (and others) doing the "sparrow > shuffle", Peter? More a sparrow cha-cha than a shuffle, I guess, but > it accomplishes the same ends I think. > > Phil > > -- > > > Phil Schappert, PhD > > 27 Clovis Ave. > Halifax, NS, B3P 1J3 > 902-404-5679 (home) > 902-460-8343 (cell) > > www.thecelticlink.com/Papilio > www.myspace.com/philschappert > www.philschappert.com > www.aworldforbutterflies.com > > "Just let imagination lead, reality will follow through..." > (Michael Hedges) > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5521 (20101011) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com --Boundary_(ID_0f2Sy6A37fpIoaNEW/KNIA) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <small><font face="Arial">Yes, of course, that's a very familiar behaviour. What I reported was quite different. The bird didn't move back and forth; it just stood on one foot and rapidly patted the ground with the other.<br> <br> Peter</font></small><br> <br> <br> Phil Schappert wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:a06240801c8da7990c267@%5B192.168.0.197%5D" type="cite"> <style type="text/css"><!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --></style> <title>Re: [NatureNS] Hermit Thrush Foraging Technique</title> <div>At 9:26 AM -0300 10/12/10, Peter Payzant wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite=""><font face="Arial" size="-1">I was watching a Hermit Thrush at our place in Waverley today, as it was foraging in a weedy meadow-ish area. I was amused to see it rapidly patting the ground with one foot, pause, and then move on a few inches and try again. Clearly it was hoping to disturb resting insects in the leaf litter. This foot-patting technique is often seen in sandpipers, but I think that this is the first time that I have seen it in a passerine.</font></blockquote> <div><br> </div> <div>Have you never watched white-throats (and others) doing the "sparrow shuffle", Peter? More a sparrow cha-cha than a shuffle, I guess, but it accomplishes the same ends I think.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Phil</div> <div><br> </div> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> <pre>-- </pre> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1"><br> Phil Schappert, PhD</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1"><br> 27 Clovis Ave.</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1">Halifax, NS, B3P 1J3</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1">902-404-5679 (home)</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1">902-460-8343 (cell)</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1"><br> </font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1">www.thecelticlink.com/Papilio</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1">www.myspace.com/philschappert<br> www.philschappert.com</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1">www.aworldforbutterflies.com</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1"><br> "Just let imagination lead, reality will follow through..."</font></div> <div><font color="#000000" face="Courier" size="-1"> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> (Michael Hedges)</font></div> <br> <br> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5521 (20101011) __________<br> <br> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.<br> <br> http://www.eset.com<br> </blockquote> </body> </html> --Boundary_(ID_0f2Sy6A37fpIoaNEW/KNIA)--
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