Heron Lake Plateau Red robin

His moseying slowed and Towhee found herself getting ahead of him. She slowed herself and then arced back toward him, catching his question as he spoke. Her mouth opened to answer him when a flash of movement in the corner of her eye momentarily snatched her attention. It was only X, winging with sudden swiftness toward the ground about three hundred yards away. When he rose again, there was something captured in his claws. Her tail waved at her friend's victorious hunt.

Facing Tywyll again, Towhee bobbed her snout. "One of them. Your mom and dad are leaders too." She didn't feel the need to explain about Alphas and Betas, not when he was so young. But she was curious. "Why do you ask?"