Saturday, October 6, 2018

Rose Breasted Grosbeak Robs Spider's Web



This female Rose Breasted Grosbeak is not going to be happy until she gets those bugs out of the orb weaver's web on a Hemlock tree. This behavior has apparently not been too well documented on video, although there is a technical name for this that I just learned - Kleptoparasitism (a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food). Always something new to learn by observing Nature!
Here is a link to a short scientific paper on the subject:https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/fi...
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