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Also occurs with Low Oblique , or semi-forward posture.  Sometimes with Ruffle, but now apparently rarer than before.  Wings held out and/or drooped.  Tail markedly raised

Often combined with Squat.

8.  Freeze.  Like that of adult Ring-bills; but always, apparently in Squat.

9.  Squat.  Just like adult Ring-bills, but essentials at least.  Very flat.  Wings held far out from body, sometimes sat on.

10.  Bowing.  Looks very much like a particularly rapid alternation of adult Obliques and Low Obliques.  The bottom of the Bow is certainly very much like the adult Low Oblique, (probably shorter-necked, however; all these juvenile patterns tend to be short-necked).  The top of the Bow is less like the adult Oblique.  Very often more of an Upright or Erect Posture.  (Like the erect posture from which young chicks gave the high intensity Distress Call).

11.  Ruffle.  Baffles me, particularly as its relative frequency (association with other patterns) seems to be changing now.  Would have said that it is very aggressive, except that it doesn't usually occur just before attack.  Sometimes particularly conspicuous after a fight, (perhaps in intention movement of shaking out wings?).

In any case, I think that it is an "intention movement" of raising or moving wings; either raising them in attack, and/or raising them as part of a comfort movement.  This interpretation might possibly explain why its frequency seems to have changed.

12.  Honking.  Only heard once, today.  A series of honking notes, each note much like the single Honks of the juvenile Ring-bill, by one bird after giving Juvenile Pumping Notes and attacking during a dispute with Helen.  Perhaps a by-product.