34 - Sunday, September 1, 1985 - North Shore News

WHEN TALKING about the behavior of birds, biologists have’ traditionally

to themselves with their spectacular plumgage or coats and their extravagant

April, when the male red- winged blackbirds arrive ata

regarded males as active and = gestures.'’ But females as passive.

“St is easy to see why biologists have thought this For the last way,”’ says biologist Andrew summers, Hurly, a graduate student at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. ‘Male animals draw more attention

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whole picture may be slowly changing, says Hurly-

Hurly has been watching the nesting habits of red-winged blackbirds in

southern Ontario. He begins his vigil every year in early

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nesting site (a cattail swamp) and stake out their ter- ritories.

FEMALES MATE

After that, the females ar- rive one by one to mate with the males and establish their nests. Sometimes as many as 15 females will mate with a

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single male and build nests within his territory.

A large harem of females is just wonderful for the male, who puts all his reproductive energy into im- pregnating as many females as he can, and thus fathering as many offspring as possi- ble, says Hurly.

However, a large harem does not please the female

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red-winged blackbird. Her reproductive energy is spent on feeding and caring for cher hatchlings. Unfortu- ‘nately, more and more fe- males entering the harem threatens the survival of the chicks.

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“Female blackbirds possessive

attracts predators -- snakes, mice, crows -- which kill and eat the eggs or the hatch- lings,’ says Hurly.

“What is advantageous for the males is not what is advantageous for the fe- males,’* he adds.

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