How One Bird Got Three Such Different-Looking Males
Ruffs , Philomachus pugnax , are shore bird that wade around in the Palearctic . male take on three distinctive type ( or morphs ) and foregather in arenas called lek to perform and display for females . Between 80 and 95 percent of them are fast-growing " main " males with elaborate ruff and head tufts of variegate colors ; they vigorously struggle and defend territories on lek to gain access to females ....