Dumb Stupid Birds

Red-necked Phalarope | She Left. He Stayed. | Dumb Stupid Birds #55


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The female is brightly colored. The female competes aggressively for mates. The female lays the eggs - then leaves, immediately, to find another male. The male incubates alone for twenty days, raises the chicks alone, and weighs less than an ounce. It also invented rotational fluid dynamics to hunt. The global population is two to four million and declining.

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Dumb Stupid BirdsBy Christopher Kliebenstein