No the text does not come separately. Essentially we found that within the length of our experiment birds were unable to associate palatability of a prey to an auditory cue. We looked at mimicry in avian prey and designed an experiment expanding upon the typical visual warning coloration. We used the same colored bait only occasionally it was mixed with distasteful quinine. We went out every morning and afternoon for two months and observed wild birds as they chose baits. We remained there, rain or shine (more often snow), until at least half of the baits were gone or until an hour had passed. We started thinking we could go out three times a day starting at 7am but that just didn't work. We switched our times to 8am and 4pm. We observed random behaviors in the birds which though interesting, were irrelevant to our experiment- which took three or more attempts to complete. We used a trilling bell-like noise as our sound cue. We began at the beginning of February, so yes, often it was very cold,though that was occasionally useful on the first early mornings.
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