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Index of Subjects Too interest, thank you, Paul. Regards, Patricia Dix Greenwich, NS Paul S. Boyer wrote: > Yes, this is a practice among several species, including Blue Jays. Sometimes a bird will seize an individual ant in the beak and stoke their own feathers with insect. As far as I know, the function of this behavior is unknown. > Years ago Natural History Magazine had a article on this. If you do a Google seach for "birds preening with ants" you will find several pertinent articles, some of them mentioning the very behavior you described. > > > On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Pat wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone heard of this? One of the resident crows here this morning was squirming with wings flattened out on the ground, flicking its body and wings, pecking at its chest - all the while sitting on an ant bed, eating ants at the same time. It would then get up and stand and still eat ants. >> >> Patricia Dix >> Greenwich NS >> > > >
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