TERRITORIAL HABITS IN BIRD LIFE 



Other species of birds are territorial only during 

 the nesting season, and when the young have been 

 reared they associate in flocks with others of their 

 own, and even different, species. On the approach of 



Gourds or Calabashes on poles, or tied to the branches 

 of trees, are suitable for nesting in. They are 

 waterproof and warm. 



the next nesting season the sex instinct begins to 

 assert itself in the male bird first; he forthwith leaves 

 the flock, selects a suitable site, and with song and 

 the display of his newly acquired nuptial plumage, 

 seeks to attract a mate. Every hen bird he sees is 

 courted, until eventually one favours him, and the 



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