PP12

For Ornithology class, we were divided into groups to study bird behavior. Our group became intrigued with the competition of feeding behavior among perching birds and ground foraging birds. The main question that continued to arise was whether there was a competitive relationship between these two groups, the first question being whether perching birds attracted foraging birds or not. As birds perch on a feeder and eat, seeds fall from the feeder to the ground. From this fact, our first goal was to examine if there was a correlation if perching birds being at a feeder leads to ground forager or other unrelated groups to come near the feeder and exhibit interspecie competition. Based on this data, our next question was whether there was a level of competition present among each group and between each group. The number of birds were counted in descrete values to observe how birds interacted with one another.