2 days ago I had the pleasure of seeing a life bird, a Parasitic Jaeger, with Dwayne Nelson and Janael Thompson at Adobe Creek Reservoir (Blue Lake) in Kiowa County. The bird put on a spectacular show of "kleptoparasitism" going after several Ring-billed Gulls in flight. On one occasion I observed the Jaeger pursue the gull in a descending corkscrew fashion toward the lake. I also learned from Dwayne that the Jaeger actually can pick out gulls with full crops and somehow force the gull to regurgitate its food. I looked online this morning for examples of this and found these rather dramatic photos of the process. Worth a look:
http://www.pbase.com/birdfedr/parasitic_jaeger Thanks to Janael and Dwayne for giving me the opportunity to see this spectacular show. Gary Koehn Colorado Springs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/9CA8340B-ABF3-4F2E-BC0A-24E6630CB453%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
