Tap dancing Cordon Bleu

[Blue Cuban]

A good friend that isn't into birds shared this with me.
As the subject states these birds have been filmed at 300 frames per second and what the human eye was missing out on as really surprised me.
I wonder if our Gouldians do the same?

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-2 ... ed/6958040

Rich.

[garyh]

I think a jacarine male might give it a run for its money,great display though,thanks for sharing garyh

[iaos]

Phenomenal.

[Tiaris]

I always wondered why you could audibly hear them as they jumped on the perch as they do this ritual. You never normally hear a finch landing on a perch. very enlightening. I don't think they are the only estrildid species to do this either. I'd be very interested to see slowed down footage of other species who do a "jumping" display.

[SamDavis]

Wow. That is incredible.

[Tiaris]

I reckon YW Pytilias must do this too. When I bred them up until a couple of years ago I could tell when they were displaying by the loud jumping on the metal seed hoppers. I could hear this easily from 20-30m away. When other finches land on the hoppers they can't be heard so I'd confidently bet that's at least one more species which does the tap dance thing too.

[arthur]

Saw a news(?) segment on a Chinese youngster who broke the world record for speed skipping . .

Too fast for the human eye, and the record overseers had to use slow motion film to actually count the 'skips per second'

Before even pondering on the magnitude of the effort . . I thought of this thread . .

Note to self: "You gotta get out more"