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Journal
emerges from the snow cover, and is
covered with standing water. Good
pectoral country, going to waste. Found
2♂♂ and 1♀ pectoral there. They were
trying this. 2 good ♂♀ classes, plus
several aerial displays. Semi-pals
common here. [Semi-pals are only
Caliorine with numbers equal to last
year.]
Observed semi-pal and pectoral
feeding in same pond. Semi-pal feeding
along edge - obviously using visual cues.
Pecking singly with visual search,
moving and turning less, w/ "half-pecks"
as if to see better. Even when jabbing-
done mostly singly in loose litter with
appearance of visual cues. Pectorals
were probing in suspended litter-
probably tactile cues. Probe rapidly
around a spot, with no apparent
search movements. 3-8 probes/serial.
Could not have been aiming at anything
in particular. Worse if pectoral has
evident sensory organs or longer
sensory trunk in bill than does semi-
pal. Maybe able to tell by fixing
and staining sections of whole bill.
Have to check on this.