{"id":37816,"date":"2013-04-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=dc7240da8852d7795dcf2551cc49d433"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:00:22","slug":"starling-takes-a-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/starling-takes-a-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Starling Takes a Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a European Starling,Sternavulgaris. An occasional bath helps it maintain its glossy splendor. I came upon a starling splashing at the edge of a pond in Brooklyn, in New York City. After getting wet, he flew into a tree and shook and preened methodically for a few minutes, pictured below. Click on the photos to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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Shaking.<\/p>\n

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Shaking harder.<\/p>\n

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Preening right.<\/p>\n

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Preening left.<\/p>\n

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Stretching and erecting the feathers.<\/p>\n

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Preening right again.<\/p>\n

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Preening left again.<\/p>\n

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Erecting everything again.<\/p>\n

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The starling eventually flew to a higher branch, spread its wings, and sat in the sun to dry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a European Starling,Sternavulgaris. An occasional bath helps it maintain its glossy splendor. I came upon a starling splashing at the edge of a pond in Brooklyn, in New York City. After getting wet, he flew into a tree and shook and preened methodically for a few minutes, pictured below. Click on the photos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2192915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uktd0bJvKWc\/UWHdbwlDqMI\/AAAAAAAABKU\/6c6MRPLk3Mg\/s1600\/a","fifu_image_alt":"Starling Takes a Bath","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2450,494],"class_list":["post-37816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-starling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}