On Thu, 7 May 2009, Amtoine Grant wrote:
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.
Smoke and flames? To deal with parasites?