It is really astonishing to me that birds not only whack themselves silly
fighting reflections, but that they do it for such long periods of time.
Does anybody have an explanation for why a robin, for example, would attack
its reflection in a window for 6 weeks? I imagine this is most of the
active breeding season, and I assume such birds are out of the gene pool,
since they spend so much time fighting with their reflection. I watched a
robin at a friends house spend 4 straight hours flying into his own
reflection over and over again, pausing several times and showing obvious
exhaustion. Since only a few birds appear to do this in any population, are
these the total nimrods of the bird world?

Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer, Teacher
East of Maltby, Snohomish, Co.

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