Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain droplets

[Peter Pfeiffer <>]

At 06:19 PM 5/15/2006, you wrote:


> Of interest was a group of Brown-headed Honeyeaters that was kicking up 
> quite a fuss in the canopy of eucalypts. There had been short shower 
> earlier in the morning and there was a light layer of water still on the 
> leaves. At first I thought they were gleaning lerp or insects off the 
> leaves and were doing it in an overly vigorous fashion. After watching 
> them for a while I came to the conclusion that they were vigorously 
> shaking and flapping their wings in amongst the leaves having a kind of 
> bath. There must have been about 30 birds.
> I can't remember seeing this behaviour before.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mick Todd
>
> --
 I have observed New Holland Honeyeaters often taking  ' foliage 
baths'  here in Adelaide.
Peter.


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