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<\/p>\nWhen common birds perform uncommon behaviors it catches my eye.\u00a0 And hopefully my lens.\u00a0 This was a behavior completely new to me for this species.<\/p>\n
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\u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Yesterday morning while photographing birds on Glover Pond we noticed this\u00a0White-faced Ibis in an unusual pose.\u00a0 But what seemed particularly strange was how long the pose was held – it was easily over a minute with the only movement from the bird during that time being a slight and very slow\u00a0change in head angle.\u00a0 Otherwise the bird was like a statue.\u00a0 Eventually the ibis put its left wing down and pulled its right wing back up and\u00a0began to preen normally.<\/p>\n A little research when I got home revealed what was going on – the ibis was sunbathing.\u00a0 The following is from BNA Online.\u00a0 I love that (paid) resource and recommend it highly:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I find it fascinating that only juveniles perform the behavior (and wonder why that’s the case).\u00a0 To make the events of the day a little stranger we saw another\u00a0far away ibis in a different pond\u00a0doing the same thing later that morning – twice in one morning when I’d never seen it before with a species that is very common around here.\u00a0 Pretty interesting I thought.<\/p>\n But just because it was new to me doesn’t necessarily mean it’s particularly unusual.\u00a0 I’d be interested in knowing\u00a0how often\u00a0others may\u00a0have observed this sunbathing behavior in White-faced or Glossy Ibis…<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When common birds perform uncommon behaviors it catches my eye. And hopefully my lens. This was a behavior completely new to me for this species.<\/p>\n\n