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the sun’s ray contributes to! the health of the entire feather structure. Birds engage in sunbathing when they are | molting — shedding old feath-; ers and replacing them with new ones. Direct rays from the 1 sun soothe the skin, which isj often irritated at this time.
I have observed robins sunbathing for 15 minutes at a time on the warm gravel of our drive way. The birds looked as if they ! were either demented or dying.
Humans sunbathe because the absorption of the sun’s rays induces a sense of wellbeing. Perhaps birds do it for the same reason.
Higginson had another question: “Just now, (8 a.m.) a blue jay landed on the feeder. Its upper breast was very ruffed and soiled, almost as if it had been badly wounded. The bird seemed completely unhindered by this apparent ‘injury,’ however, and pecked away with gusto before flying away vigorously.”
See BEHAVIOR, Page A8
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