h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Predators are subjected to 'mobbing', where birds will fly at them, loudly calling, and sometimes 'dive-bombing' them."

We once had a bird-killing cat in my neighborhood. Birds would gang up and divebomb the cat.

Since this type of bird prefers short grasslands, where on a farm would these grasslands occur?: Would wheat fields qualify as grasslands?

Hello! So far now birds have actually mobbed my cat. But he's not really came close to killing any bird yet! I've been mobbed by crowned lapwings a few times.

On a farm such grasslands would be the areas where the cattle graze. They would keep the grass short enough. Some farmers may even burn certain parts in a controlled way every few years. This is generally good for grassland ecology.

I don't think these lapwings would be found in fields of wheat, except after the wheat has been harvested or when it's freshly planted and still short.

One day when I was living with my parents, I came home to find my outdoor cat in the laundry room. It wasn't raining or snowing, and my mom didn't like cat hair on her furniture, so I asked her why.

'The birds were mobbing Niki, so I felt sorry for her and let her in,' she said.

It was baby-bird-flying-lesson day and they were armed against predators.

Yep, those bird mothers are feisty

The birds here are pretty alert, when I walk Sagrys outside, they make it clear they're aware of him, such as the babblers turning up in a group and scolding him.

Yep. We can tell when that outdoor cat in the neighbourhood is skulking around. They start telling each other to watch out.

They do this for hawks, too.

THAT looks more real, than a camera could take a picture of it

Hi Prof! Well I did use a photo as reference for my painting but I tried to improve upon it.

Willem! Just admit it mate Your a bloody genius, in the skills you have

Be modest like me

I second the motion

OK I'll be modest!

NOT "OK I'll be modest"

It's I AM modest! (but I don't brag about it! (a typical Yorkshire person))