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A courting couple / Hadada Ibis/

Some Hadada ibis maintain a pair bonding throughout the year. Commonly, a female, with her wings half-open, approaches a male and touches her beak to his beak. After this brief mutual beak-to-beak touching, she resumes feeding elsewhere among the party. Billing behavior of pairs includes rattling of beaks up and down and side-to-side while nodding heads. Courtship includes the offering of sticks by each bird to the other ๐Ÿ˜„, followed by neck intertwining, mutual preening, head shaking

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Uploaded on May 6, 2018
Taken on September 17, 2017