Lorna Gibson

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199 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Something You Should Know · Has Therapy Gone Too Far? & The Hidden Genius of Birds · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So it was sort of flying up.

It obviously saw a fish.

It was sort of zooming down.

And then it couldn't quite coordinate its wings and its talons and the fish.

And it just kind of did this belly flop.

And it sort of, you know, dusted itself off and it flew off again.

And then it just kept doing it over and over, doing these kind of belly flops into the water.

And I can only assume that it had not quite perfected the whole flight and catching fish routine, but presumably it got the hang of it later on.

I think typically they're up and gone.

Some birds, in fact, some birds that migrate, the adults will leave the nest before the young birds are ready to go.

And the adults may go to a staging ground where they feed and fatten up before they do their migration.

And the young birds will have to find their own way to the staging ground.

I don't think they hook up with the parents at that point.

And they basically have to find their own way to migrate to wherever they go to.

So I think typically they don't end up, and I think often also, you know, birds might have a territory, especially birds of prey might have a territory.

And I think typically the young have to go and find their own territory that they can't really compete with the adults.

Typically, the male birds are much more colorful than the females.

And I think often that is part of a courtship effort by the males.

And so, you know, the bird's color is some way that the females evaluate the males and decide who they want to mate with.

But there's all sorts of amazing things about the structure of feathers that gives them those incredible colors.

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