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Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 1:10 pm
by Toko
Role model, I'd say

Keep us updated, please, we would like to know if there is an association between a stable partnership over the years and hard working caring fathers in Barbets!
Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 1:21 pm
by Lisbeth
Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 1:30 pm
by Toko
For a start I should learn how to tell apart the male and the female in Barbets
Also worthwile to look into the effects of having two houses for a couple

Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 1:43 pm
by Lisbeth
Toko wrote:
Also worthwile to look into the effects of having two houses for a couple

Excellent idea!! You will have to overcome some social and economic difficulties though

Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 2:12 pm
by Super Mongoose
I can contribute a bit to your study so long:
Male Crested Barbets is brighter in colour, specially the red, but even the yellow is a nice bright yellow.
Human males are duller in colour than females and don't do house chores...!
Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 2:31 pm
by Toko
Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 2:42 pm
by Lisbeth
Super Mongoose wrote:I can contribute a bit to your study so long:
Male Crested Barbets is brighter in colour, specially the red, but even the yellow is a nice bright yellow.
Human males are duller in colour than females and don't do house chores...!
Not only in colors. The older they get the duller they get

They even
stop dancing the Cha Cha Cha (this is a personal observation)

Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:27 pm
by Flutterby
Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:39 pm
by Super Mongoose
Agree, that will be very help full to draw a good comparison....
This is the male, we call him Woody, after the Cha cha cha, taking a short break.
This is the female, we call her Wendy, just sitting in front of her clean and tidy house.

Re: Garden Bird Pictures
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:33 pm
by nan