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[[underline]] modestus[[/underline]] Dec. 2, 1955, V.
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There is a characteristic shape to the head & neck during V (also O to some extent. Neck is thin & long (neck is also often long & never really thick from side view too) and the greatest thickness, which almost appears to be a slight swelling is just below the nape. Presumably [[correlated?]] with "egg" shape [[Confirm.?]] Lots of V's are much longer necked even than the [[anxiety?]] or alarm postures I saw at La [[Portella?]]

this sort of thing is quite common [[image -- simple sketch of two bird bodies in profile looking page right]]

[[Rather???]] like some of the "anx" postures of Ring-bill
Aerial LCN plus glide followed by very swift flight, rapidly beating wings, with some twisting and turning, rather like some of the swift flights I have seen with PCC's or low intensity (ie. not so [[?]]) Silent Panic's. The whole performance [[underline]] looked [[/underline]] at least as high intensity as the usual aerial PCC's with out Swoops & Soars
I should say that a good 25% of the ritual attacking that takes place in this group (and attacking is actually quite common) is redirection by one or both birds of pair, provoked (more or less completely) by the presence of the partner. All other forms of attacking, ie. actual repulsion of an intruder or real irritation with a neighbor, [[underline]] seem to be very rare[[/underline]] This is a remarkably "un-aggressive," even "un-hostile" species, [[underline]] except during pairing [[/underline]] Explains why I have had difficulty getting any decent counts of un-redirected hostility. And even so I have probably counted redirected hostility by mistake.
I think that the displays associated with attacking are are much the same when the attack is redirected as when it is "direct." The only difference I have noted without M's before attack are relatively common when the attack is a redirected one. And even this difference, if it does exist, is probably slight 
I have seen absolutely nothing, with the possible exception of a few
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