{"id":12673,"date":"2022-07-06T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=12673"},"modified":"2022-07-06T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:12:42","slug":"gular-fluttering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/gular-fluttering\/","title":{"rendered":"Gular fluttering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The crow version of panting. Warmer in CHO than it is in Ho Chi Minh City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are only a couple of behaviors that birds use. When it\u2019s hot, some species will also resort to gular fluttering. The bird will open its mouth and \u201cflutter\u201d its neck muscles, promoting heat loss (think of it as the avian version of panting).<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think about a dog panting, their tongue isn\u2019t only allowing evaporation, but is losing a lot of body fluid,\u201d says Erickson. \u201cBirds are much more efficient about water and water loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even so, birds still need to replenish fluids on a hot day. Installing a birdbath can provide feathered friends with a place to cool their heels in the summer, and get a drink. The water level shouldn\u2019t be too high\u2014only about an inch deep\u2014and the bottom of the birdbath shouldn\u2019t be too slippery. Replenish the water once every two or three days. Otherwise, the stagnant water can play host to algae and mosquito larvae, which can carry the West Nile virus as adults.<\/p>\n

Almost as important as water is shade. Temperatures can be far cooler under trees or bushes, and birds often seek out these microclimates. Since a bird\u2019s body temperature is much higher than that of humans\u2014a golden crowned kinglet was once found to have a body temperature of 111 degrees Fahrenheit\u2014it\u2019s doubly important for them to cool off in a hurry. Proteins that shuttle vital information to a bird\u2019s organs begin to break apart at temperatures that are only slightly higher.–audubon.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are only a couple of behaviors that birds use. When it\u2019s hot, some species will also resort to gular fluttering. The bird will open its mouth and \u201cflutter\u201d its neck muscles, promoting heat loss (think of it as the avian version of panting). \u201cIf you think about a dog panting, their tongue isn\u2019t only … Continue reading “Gular fluttering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Gular fluttering","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,42,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-urban-planning","category-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12675,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions\/12675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}