Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 11:29:51 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kerry Stone Subject: Interesting chickadee article Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi all, In the May 3rd issue of Science a very interesting article on Chickadees is coming out. The article claims that the female chickadee is unfaithful two-timer. Apparently, she listens to all the male chickadee songs, picks her favorite, and if her favorite song happens to be coming from a bird that's not her mate - she sneaks out and meets the great singer for a littel tete-a-tete and sneaks back home. Funny!!! Kerry Stone Takoma Park, MD Montgomery County Science May 3 2002: 807 [Full Text] Brevia Female Eavesdropping on Male Song Contests in Songbirds Daniel J. Mennill, Laurene M. Ratcliffe, and Peter T. Boag Science May 3 2002: 873. [Full Text] ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================