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Duval,
E.H.
2004
Journal
Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov. Panama'
9 April 2004
This morning I saw AW- (DM) SF-1 for a ?
on the dp at this year's SBE16. The fact
that AWW + AWP are partners at this site
really does make me wonder whether the males
are phenotype-matching based on color bands.
I did a watch in the area to try to
verify which male was doing displays for
females, but saw nothing much additional.
I continued on to do watches at CAS
and LOT. Nothing much happened at CAS (VGC
is still there), but at LOT I saw an
interesting dominance dispute. One male started
SF-1 for a ? (VGC, hatched near BIR, I think)
and after a long time APA (DM), the apparent
(alpha, flew in and evicted the other male to
continue displaying for the female himself. Later
in the watch, APA was again displaying for
a female when the other male flew in with
a different DM partner and tried to rip-flight
the female back to the second LOT dance
perch. I should note that while APA
still used the long-flagged perch in the
flat area which is visible from the south
trail, both he and the other males used
a new perch slightly east & uphill, just