Tap dancing songbirds Blue-capped cordon-bleu

For the first time, researchers captured on film the rapid step-dancing performed by male and female Uraeginthus cyanocephalus (blue-capped cordon-bleu) as part of their courtship displays.

Credit:
Tap dancing birds: the multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird
Nao Ota, Manfred Gahr & Masayo Som
Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep1661

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