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| Subject: | Bathing and Dusting |
| From: | Penn Gwynne <> |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:45:08 -0700 (PDT) |
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Hello everyone, Just before classes started yesterday, I saw a fairy wren bathing in a shallow dish of water it then proceeded to hop off and over to a dry and dusty patch of ground about four metres away from the water bowl, and then perform a dusting task. Any idea's as to what might have been going on? looks like it got itself wet first so as to make some small dust lumps within the feathers? it shook itself to send the small moist dust lumps here there and everywhere. The morning light let me see the lumps being displaced. Has anyone seen this behaviour in other bird species? Thanking you for any future help with this issue. Angela B Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith.yahoo.com |
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