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Tom Higginson, who lives on Lost Comer Road near Rectortown, has written an interesting letter about bird behavior at the feeder just outside his home office window.
“A couple of weeks ago,” he wrote, “a white-breasted nuthatch landed on top of the feeder and sat there, with feathers fluffed out, mouth agape and head tilted to one side. Occasionally it would close its mouth, then reopen it very wide and resume this contorted posture.
“I thought it was in extremis (Higginson’s italics). After a few minutes of this behavior, it flew away without any noticeable impediment. What on earth was it doing?”
Higginson has vividly described a bird taking a sunbath.
One writer described sunbathing as giving the impression that the bird "... is suffering from heat prostration and may be dying.”
Birds are hosts to tiny parasites that gather in feathers that the bird can’t reach with its bill. By letting the direct rays of the sun reach its skin, the bird forces the microscopic parasites to move to the bird’s head, where they can be dislodged by scratching.
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