Figbird behaviour

[Ronald Orenstein <>]

At 02:13 PM 17/07/00 +1000, Terry Pacey wrote:
> Most of the time it sat with its feathers puffed out making it look much
> larger than it was.  At intervals it spread its wings and tail in the
> fashion of a cormorant drying itself.  The weather was fine, warm and there
> was no way the Figbird's feathers were wet.
Could the bird have simply been sunning itself, with the feathers fluffed 
to allow sunlight to reach the skin?  Certainly cuckoos will do this, 
though I have not heard that figbirds do.
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