On 27 Jul 2004 22:23:29 GMT, pepper1960{at}aol.com (PEPPER1960)
wrote:

>      I think the wing-shaking bird is pretending to still
be a baby so that the
> older bird will continue to feed it.  Sometimes I see that
the minute the older
> bird turns away, the "baby" bird starts pecking
for it's own food.

All the birds I've seen doing this appear to be younger birds
begging for food.

Tara J. Ballance
Montreal, Canada
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