Captured fishes are often brought up to the surface to swallow them and during this time other birds including other Little Cormorants, Painted Stork, gulls and egrets may attempt to steal them.

While they were filming Sirocco, the bird hopped onto Carwardine's head and attempted to mate with him.

During droughts, when māmane seeds are scarce, most birds do not attempt to breed.

An unsuspecting bird or mammal will eventually notice the 'easy lunch' and attempt to seize it.

The birds would soon attempt just that.

Third-party birds may sometimes attempt to help raise the young, but are often chased away by the parent birds.

These birds occasionally attempt infanticide to gain access to prime nesting sites or mates.

Black Currawongs have been observed wrestling with each other, where a bird would attempt to force its opponent on its back, at Maydena, while others have been reported rolling on their backs and juggling with food items such as pears with their feet.

They select a new site each evening, often selecting and rejecting several sites, and engaging in aggressive calling and chasing as other birds attempt to join the group.

The menagerie of the Zoological Society provided the perfect opportunity to observe subjects alive and vigorously kicking, and the tiny woodcuts of the Society's guidebook vibrate with squawking, flapping, screeching birds drawn as never before attempted in a British work of its kind.