Water bathing and dust bathing by the Eurasian Tree Sparrow <i>Passer montanus</i>

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  • HONMA Koji
    Environment Section, Arakawa City Office Environment and Waste Management Division

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  • スズメの水浴び・砂浴び行動
  • スズメ ノ ミズアビ ・ スナ アビ コウドウ

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Eurasian Tree Sparrows Passer montanus were studied to identify their trends in the sequence of water bathing and dust bathing in an urban garden in Arakawa City, Tokyo. In cases where both forms of bathing were performed repeatedly, we found that bathing in water preceded dust bathing in 18 of 19 cases in 2014, and in 24 of 28 cases in 2015. During previous observations in Kanagawa Prefecture, water bathing preceded dust bathing in seven of nine cases. This tendency is inferred to be a measure of the sparrows choosing to dry themselves after bathing in water.

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