Experts claim that when pygmy falcons eyespot a sweet target, they routinely bob their heads and tails before striking which is a physiological adaptation. They also courageously seem to always have an eye out for snakes and rodents in their homestead which they behaviorally adapted through experience from living in their habitat. Along with behavioral adaptations, in the northeastern area of their range, where they utilize white-headed buffalo weaver nests, those swarm birds can fend (off) predators so they can gain little from the interlopers. Some say this live technique makes the Pygmy Falcon a “nest pirate”.