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sat in my car yesterday watching about 70 pigeons feeding on field of rape, every now and then a bird would lie on the ground and lift one wing vertically in the air looking like sail there was light rain at the time and I wondered if that had any bearing on this odd behaviour,at any one time there would be about a dozen birds doing this, can anyone shed light on this as I have not seen this in over 65 years shooting pigeons.

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seen it loads of times in the garden....usually on hot sunny days //......i think they do it to get rid of lice or beasties....the bugs dont like UV sunlight......

that is what i believe anyway..

seen black birds do it as well...and when they do it they gape at the same time...

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On 01/03/2019 at 21:16, ditchman said:

seen it loads of times in the garden....usually on hot sunny days //......i think they do it to get rid of lice or beasties....the bugs dont like UV sunlight......

that is what i believe anyway..

seen black birds do it as well...and when they do it they gape at the same time...

Have noticed this, I think they were using an ant bath for parasites?

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