This is bird note.

Male birds are often the larger,

flashier sex that courts choosy females,

which in turn raise their chicks.

The male's attention-getting tactics

include the virtuoso songs of lair birds,

the booming built-in bagpipes of a male sage-grouse,

and individual drumming rhythms of palm cockatooes.

However, in other species,

females compete for males,

and the males then tend the nest and raise the chicks.

With dracanas, also known as lily trotters

for the fabulous long toes

that allow them to walk on lily pads,

females challenge each other over territories

in which to house a cluster of males half their size,

and the males perform all the childcare.

The females of three species of fallaropes,

will since red-necked and red, also rule the roost.

They fight over males, sometimes mating with many.

The female chooses the nest site,

but then leaves the male with incubation and raising the young.

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