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Lagopus, can you give the derivation of the term”jugging”?
By the way, I just looked out the dining room window. For weeks it has been 20 birds. Now, there seems to be another 7 or so feeding in a close by, but separate group.
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Does “jugging” derive from partridges making a noise like jugs or tankards being held together and clinking ?
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Daryl, that is a great picture, thanks for sharing that.
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Great photo. They sometimes do this at night with heads in all directions for security as well as warmth. The behaviour is called 'Jugging'. Lagopus..... Do they rotate the positions within the group cycling between the outside position and the center? Honey bees do that in 3 dimensions to keep the hive and everyone inside as warm as possible.
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Great picture Daryl. They look a lot like the Bobwhites on the back cover of some Ithaca Gun Co., Inc. catalogs in the mid-1950s.
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Nice photo. Far better than the published photos of Bobwhites frozen in place as they roosted in the aftermath of a midwestern ice storm. Gil
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Daryl, sorry. At the moment I can't find where the word comes from. It is a term I have heard for a long time. I can find reference to it in a book called Partridge Shooting by J.K. Stanford. I'll dig into a few more of my older game shooting books and see if there is anything more. Lagopus.....
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Lagopus, I'll look forward to any information you can provide.
Parabola, my wife, who actually took the above picture, liked your "jugging" idea. So do I.
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I saw similar behavior several years ago on a much larger scale. A hunting buddy and I were drawn for permits for the Primitive Weapons deer hunt at the Pymatuning Goose Management Refuge in Crawford County, Pa. It was 10 below zero on the morning of our mid-January hunt, and I posted very close to the lake, which was completely frozen over.
On the ice, about 200 yards from shore, were thousands of Canada geese that hadn't migrated south. They were all clustered together, and through my binoculars, I could see that their feathers were all puffed out like these birds. Occasionally, a small number would take off and presumably fly somewhere to find food and water. Other small flocks of eight or ten birds would return, and land on the ice, and then rejoin the large cluster to share warmth.
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