Maybe it was communicating with its own kind?

Oh I just remembered neuroscience has revealed we “sync” brainwaves just being in a room with another. We can take on others processing patterns.

No reason to assume similar can’t occur between species.

Perhaps the bird “read his mind” in such a way as to intuit something was breaking.

Perhaps applying simple cost/benefit analysis is too reductionist to reach a conclusion?

Yep, maybe. This is an endlessly circular discussion without falsifiable experiment.

Which is my whole point.

You have fun falling into the abyss. I’m gonna go see what reality is made of.