Wild Birds: Bird Bath

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All birds love taking baths, and any little water hole by a river can become a bath for small birds. The Taiwan yuhina, for one, likes to bathe here together, and their social nature allows them to accept an uninvited varied tit. To the medium-large sized Taiwan blue magpie, however, the water for their baths needs to be deeper for maximum enjoyment. So they choose to bathe by ponds or rivers. Yet how deep must the water be? Usually they aren’t picky, as long as it is enough to wet their bellies when they crouch, and to splash up their bodies when they flap their wings. As for the Malayan night-heron, which lives almost entirely in Taiwan’s parks, puddles that form in parks after showers make the perfect baths. The crested goshawk also takes advantage of these puddles, for more and more of them have moved into urban parks in Taiwan lately.

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