Dunnock the female. Males try to ensure their paternity by pecking at the cloaca of the female to stimulate ejection of rival males' sperm. Dunnocks take just one-tenth of a second to copulate and can mate more than 100 times a day. Males provide parental care in proportion to their mating success, so two males and a female can commonly be seen provisioning nestlings at one nest. Other mating systems also exist within dunnock populations, depending on the ratio of male to females and the overlap of territories. When only one female and one male territory overlap, monogamy is preferred. Sometimes,
Lliana Bird Cox, More in Common" award. Bird was also named as one of "Foreign Policy"'s "Top 100 Global Thinkers 2016". In 2016, Bird hosted the London Peace Talks. In 2017 Bird co-founded The Kindly Collective, which brings people together to fundraise and champion projects supporting women, children and creatures across the globe. Bird has lived with comedian Noel Fielding since about 2010. They live in Highgate, north London. Noel and Lliana have one child called Dali. Lliana Bird Lliana Bird, or Birdy (born 17 August 1981), is a British radio presenter (currently on Radio X ), writer, actress and co-founder of