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"O Sole Mio"

Photography Creatures posted on May 11, 2007
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Birds in various climates and all around the world indulge in sunning. This can be anything from simply standing with their backs to the sun with their feathers rustled up to expose the skin below, to a full sunbathing posture with wings and tail feathers spread out to maximize the area open to the sun, like this Bald Eagle. Some birds such as pigeons will be on one side and raise a wing to the sun. Whatever the exact action, like 'smoke bathing' the causes, or benefits to the bird are a matter of supposition. Obviously, in many cases the birds get warmth from the sun which reduces the amount of metabolic energy they have to expend in order to maintain a constant body temperature of around 40 degrees C. However, some birds sunbathe in temperatures which are quite hot, in such circumstances sunbathing appears to leave them over-heated as they can be seen panting. Therefore, some scientists have theorized that the sun's warmth is important in helping dislodge feather parasites, or that the ultra-violet in sunlight helps turn some precursor molecule in the preening oil into vitamin D and that the bird's need this vitamin. It is known that these precursor molecules exist in preening oil and that ultra-violet light will stimulate the conversion into vitamin D. What is not known is how well this happens on the bird's body and how important the amount of vitamin D created would be to the bird. I have also seen other birds appearing to sunbathe but on closer inspection found it was an anthill they were sitting on I presume this behaviour was to make use of the insects own chemicals to kill off parasites..

Comments (43)


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babuinodeoro

10:07AM | Sat, 12 May 2007

what head!!! he is the king. sure

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vulcanccit

10:17AM | Sat, 12 May 2007

this is fantastic, love how you presented this

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oscilis

10:40AM | Sat, 12 May 2007

I didn't know any of that. Lovely textures in this and the glare in his eye. Whenever I try to get a bird shot I land up with a picture of empty skies or trees!

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Digitaleagle

10:45AM | Sat, 12 May 2007

Spectacular!!!!!!!!!! Great clearity and detail awesome capture!!

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Punaguy

1:18PM | Sat, 12 May 2007

Magazine quality shot here Dan....clean and sharp...wow~ Aloha~

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udin13

1:54PM | Sat, 12 May 2007

Superb Shot!

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erlandpil

2:04PM | Sat, 12 May 2007

Excellent shot my friends erland

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sema_fox

3:50AM | Mon, 14 May 2007

Wonderfully!!!

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lizzibell

5:14PM | Mon, 14 May 2007

Beautiful bird...

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dorothylee

8:23PM | Mon, 14 May 2007

He looks like he is really enjoying the sun and his beak almost glows. Stunning!

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tizjezzme

9:06AM | Sun, 20 May 2007

I would LOVE to manage a shot like this .. wow, its perfect!

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mps

2:59PM | Sun, 27 May 2007

What a lovely shot of this eagle.

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marinaio

3:45AM | Sun, 03 June 2007

o sole mio.........sta in fronte a me!!! Fantastic photo and superb exemplary.

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Photograph Details
F Numberf/7.1
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 5D
Shutter Speed1/400
ISO Speed320
Focal Length360

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