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1985 Mark Stanback
M. formicivora
Pipeline
HNIHR
July
(9 July) 1500. Put 100-200 acorns into PIPE
granary. All acorns from yesterday (8 July) gone
July
10 0700 - 1000 Arriving found 2 birds in granary.
Set up for Power Struggle, but tape
would not come on very loud.
0745 Caught and banded ♂ 1131 68.5 (142)
0900 Identified all Warp 5 birds (636,
5177, 997, 998, 999) The ♂ and the babies
spent quite a bit of time attacking the
♂ dummy (even after the tape ran out)
They finally succeeded in breaking its head
off. The ♀ was not seen to attack this
dummy, though she seemed "interested" in
the attacks. She showed particular
interest in the ♀ dummy, though neither
she, the ♂, nor the babies attacked it,
possibly because it was partially tangled
in the net and attached to the speaker.
Acorns taken from the granary were either
eaten there or taken to Warp 5 (or at
least in that direction. About 0900 an
unbanded ♀ (not the Warp 5 ♀) appeared
on the eastern edge of the clearing, but did
not approach the granary, left 10 min later.
18,19 Aug some acorns(mine) there. No birds