Courtship Habits of Eurasian Waterfowl

Courtship of Habits of Eurasian Waterfowl is an excerpt from a book in Prey: Mooncrash.

Transcript
[Excerpt from a book about birds, by Dr. D. W. Daly]

The mating rituals of the Great Crested Grebe take several days to complete, and culminate in what birders call the "weed dance".

After much miming, mimicking, and synchronous swimming, the pair will dredge some pond weed from the breeding lake. Then, rushing towards one another, they paddle furiously and raise their bodies from the water, and "dance" breast to breast, swinging their pieces of pond weed in their beaks.

As the male and female both sport sport a crest of red and black feathers, few can distinguish them.

Location
The book is found in habitation module 9-18 on Crew Annex.