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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3182225" data-attributes="member: 69491">Now for some fun with Houbaras..........The white feather duster look in the first three. The male first inflates its black neck plumes moving them down and to the side before the white neck and crest plumes become erect. BWP suggests that males bump into things as a result but in fact, the male tends to look to the side of the white plumes. In these photos, he is looking around the left hand side.The next two show male and female together. They show more sexual dimorphism than my library suggests with the male with more significant black neck plumes and white crest as well as being significantly more pale grey on both the head and also the wing coverts and with a paler yellow eye. The female appeared to be coarser on the mantle.The birds spent significant periods mirroring with lowered necks and this was not as a result of a reaction to our presence as they did this before and after display and before and after acts of aggression. In the last of the five photos, the female was shivering from side to side and backing into the male but it then all kicked off again!All the bestPaul</blockquote>