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Antics of a Laughing Dove

on 3rd November 2018
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The Laughing Dove’s (Streptopelia senegalensis) so-called antics as shown in the video is actually part of its comfort behaviour. Such behaviour increases the physical comfort of the bird, and includes vigorous stretching of its wings, fluffing its feathers, fanning its tail feathers, preening and oiling its feathers.

Also included as comfort behaviour are water bathing, leaf bathing, dust bathing, anting and sunning.

Most of these activities are to maintain the feathers in tip-top condition. Stretching is to get the blood flowing to the muscles.

Lakshmi Ravishankar
Pune, India
30th September 2016

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YC Wee

Dr Wee played a significant role as a green advocate in Singapore through his extensive involvement in various organizations and committees: as Secretary and Chairman for the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), and with the Nature Society (Singapore) as founding President (1978-1995). He has also served in the Nature Reserve Board (1987-1989), Nature Reserves Committee (1990-1996), National Council on the Environment/Singapore Environment Council (1992-1996), Work-Group on Nature Conservation (1992) and Inter-Varsity Council on the Environment (1995-1997). He is Patron of the Singapore Gardening Society and was appointed Honorary Museum Associate of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in 2012. In 2005, Dr Wee started the Bird Ecology Study Group. With more than 6,000 entries, the website has become a valuable resource consulted by students, birdwatchers and researchers locally and internationally. The views and opinions expressed in this article are his own, and do not represent those of LKCNHM, the National University of Singapore or its affiliated institutions.

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One Response

  1. I loved this video and the explanation that it is required to keep the bird’s flying machine in top condition. I wish the traffic sound could be masked by other bird sound in an overlay while editing.

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