Anting
by Bunny Clarke
Title
Anting
Artist
Bunny Clarke
Medium
Photograph - Photography, Wildlife
Description
When I took this picture of the sweet little song sparrow, I didn't realize until I downloaded it, he was anting. Anting is where the birds expose themselves to, usually a colony, ants to have the parasites removed from their feathers. :o)
Nikon CoolPix P1000
La Jolla, CA
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February 8th, 2021
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Comments (31)
David Neace CPX 4 Days Ago
Congratulations, your work is featured on the homepage of "Created by Southern Artists
Anthony Jones
Beautiful work! Thank you for submitting your artwork to the Southern California Artist Collective Group where the image is now featured on the home page. Feel free to post this in the Featured archive in the group discussion page section L/F
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020-2021 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020-2021 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Karen Slagle
I have never heard of antting before, how clever of these little birds...cute image too.