If you are a visiting birder and have benefitted from this service, please let us know what you've seen. 11 shy of last year's inaugural count. Disappointingly few reports have trickled in from Trinidad. A lek refers to a group of males displaying to other males and to females. Each displaying male defends a relatively small mating territory, which usually lacks other resources required by females.
Females visit the lek only to mate.
Lek sites are usually traditional, which means that females know where to go. Some leks have occurred at the same locality for several decades. Stay tuned for more about leks next week. Many of the identifications reported in the SCBA are tentative in nature. Over 130 records have been submitted thus far.