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  2. Suet cake - Wikipedia

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    A blue tit feeding on a suet cake A ring-shaped suet cake being formed in a mold, by adding melted fat to a mix of seeds. Suet cakes or fat balls are nutritional supplements for wild birds used in bird feeders. [1] They commonly consist of sunflower seeds and wheat or oat flakes mixed with suet, pork fat, or coconut oil.

  3. Preening - Wikipedia

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    When preening, a bird (such as this red lory) draws individual feathers through its beak, realigning and re-interlocking the barbules.. Preening is a maintenance behaviour found in birds that involves the use of the beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check.

  4. Anting (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    A black drongo in a typical anting posture. Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).

  5. Spring cleaning should include your bird feeders. Why it's so ...

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    The Kentucky DNR recommends following these steps for cleaning your bird feeders: Start by removing and discarding old food and debris. Rotted or moldy food can make the birds sick.

  6. Cleaning symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning symbiosis is a relationship between a pair of animals of different species, involving the removal and subsequent ingestion of ectoparasites, diseased and injured tissue, and unwanted food items from the surface of the host organism (the client) by the cleaning organism (the cleaner). [5]

  7. Pellet (ornithology) - Wikipedia

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    A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate. The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestible plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth.

  8. What Festive Food Scraps Can You Give to Birds This ... - AOL

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    Providing birds with a safe and warm space is just as vital as extra food at this time of year. "Robins often use nest boxes as roosting sites during the winter, so putting up a suitable nest box ...

  9. Animal coloration - Wikipedia

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    Animals use colour to advertise services such as cleaning to animals of other species; to signal their sexual status to other members of the same species; and in mimicry, taking advantage of the warning coloration of another species. Some animals use flashes of colour to divert attacks by startling predators. Zebras may possibly use motion ...