Cinereous Tit puddling in the birdbath

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The Cinereous tit (Parus cinereus) is a grey-backed bird with white undersides. It is found from parts of West Asia, across South Asia and into parts of Southeast Asia.

Lakshmi Ravishankar’s video shows a Cinereous Tit bathing in a birdbath.

Bathing (in water) is part of its feather maintenance regime that include leaf bath, sand bath, sunning, preening, scratching to anting.

Lakshmi Ravishankar
Pune, India
11th April 2018

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