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Re: Vulture warm up

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Subject: Re: Vulture warm up
From: Amtoine Grant <rascienz@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 01:27:07 -0600
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On 6-May-09, at 6:20 PM, Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

According to my sources, the TV's body temperature lowers by about 6 degrees C at night, so warm-up may be part of the component. Drying the wings and baking-off bacteria are also possibilities. This posture is termed the "horaltic pose". Anhingas and cormorants often pose in this fashion for wing drying...


Quick thought, do any non-black[ish] birds engage in this behavior?
I've seen video of crows doing it to, but next to smoke/flames.

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