Awww, thanks. I'm sensing a theme here in the research. Fortunately, I had turned the laptop off and did not have, oh I dunno, the latest reading from the Oxoniensis porn battle 12. I get really twitchy when anyone is even NEAR my laptop.

As for the reproductive cycles of birds, I knew this at one point because I got interested when paleontologists checked the fossilized bone marrow of a T.Rex and discovered she was female and pregnant and that the blood markers are some such thing were very avian. I also know that some songbirds in our yard mate at least twice in a spring season. Same sex bonding is really common in birds, too.