Observing a magpie family

The magpie family unit that I am observing for this blog is made up of: female parent (PB), male parent (PA), and two juveniles (IA and IB)

Friday 20 June 2014

04 - magpie family

This morning, around 6:30am, I spotted the entire family on the power pole and quickly took a photograph (another blurry one, I will have to set up a camera with tripod one of these days ...) before rushing off. It is great to see PB again, second from right.

The magpies were not around late afternoon. I will try to make some time over the coming weekend to observe them, and will be thinking about a simple field experiment that I could do to find out about their strategy with regards to resource defence and/or resource sharing.

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