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Lark Sparrows - three's a crowd in courtship.

From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Lark_Sparrow/lifehistory

 

"A courting male Lark Sparrow crouches on the ground, holds his tail up at a 45 degree angle from the ground, spreads the tail feathers to show off the white tips, and then struts with its wings drooping so that the wingtips nearly touch the ground. When the female is receptive, the male gives her a small twig just before copulation."

 

In this case, two males (both tails visible, one in the background) skirmished with neither completing the proceedings.

 

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Uploaded on March 12, 2016
Taken on March 8, 2016