At the risk of stating the obvious, Red Wattlebirds habitually bathe in
moist foliage.
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From:
On Behalf Of Tony Russell
Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 9:40 AM
To: 'Peter Pfeiffer';
Cc:
Subject: Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain
droplets
Sometimes, when I'm feeling generous, I spray my garden hose up into
nearby trees. The local 20-30 New Holland H/Es quickly fly in and go
absolutely bonkers in the spray and wet dripping leaves. They have a
great time. I usually get fed up with it long before they even look like
having had enough.
Tony,
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Peter Pfeiffer
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:45 AM
To:
Cc:
Subject: Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain
droplets
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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