The dad of the background nest has been preening, snoozing, and periodically doing the male mate-attracting routine for over an hour. His chick-raising is done for this year, juveniles fledged and gone from the nest, his white nuptial patches worn off. What is going on with his hormones here? A youngster comes to get fed, but, the dad is expecting a female to mate with, and turfs the kid off the platform. The youngster, (or a sibling) returns to the nest next door, and tries to get dad's attention from there . The appeal to be fed is rebuffed, the parent comes over to displace the kid, then gets into stealing material from the abandoned nest he is on.
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Animals