"Get Off My Lawn:" Song Sparrows Escalate Territorial Threats - with Video

Territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals. First an early warning that matches the intruder's song, then wing waving - a bird's version of "flipping the bird" - as the dispute heats up, and finally, if all other signals have failed, attack.

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