{"id":28303,"date":"2020-03-02T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28303"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:04:22","slug":"flicker-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28303","title":{"rendered":"Flicker fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two male Northern Flickers were fencing.<\/p>\n<p>When seen from a distance, I thought that I was watching a courting couple. But no, both flickers were male. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Northern_Flicker\/lifehistory\">Cornell Lab<\/a> comments on the flicker:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Early in spring and summer, rivals may face off in a display sometimes called a \u201cfencing duel,\u201d while a prospective mate looks on. Two birds face each other on a branch, bills pointed upward, and bob their heads in time while drawing a loop or figure-eight pattern in the air&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leaving aside the silly redundancy in the name, these two males were fencing. However, as no prospective mate was seen, they were probably contesting ownership of the adjacent cavity nest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As dispute resolution goes, these flickers have handily bested most other species. They discussed the issue calmly while avoiding all injurious contact.<\/p>\n<p>Two male flickers contend a cavity nest using ritual fencing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28304\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/flicker20200301s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two male Northern Flickers were fencing. When seen from a distance, I thought that I was watching a courting couple. But no, both flickers were male. Cornell Lab comments on the flicker: Early in spring and summer, rivals may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28313,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303\/revisions\/28313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}