It is interesting to note how mousebirds use temperature as an aid in their survival and behaviour. During cold spells or just before dark, they tend to ‘huddle’ and form a tight group, bunched up next to each other as form of communal roosting. As far as I know it is a thermoregulation to ensure constant body heat when they are resting without expending the individual energy but with the collective body heat transfer between the birds. This has an effect on metabolism too then. I don’t know how accurate this is, perhaps you can do a video of their ‘huddling’ or clustering and provide more insight on the topic, if indeed true?
What part of SA are you from because there are Red-faced Mousebirds and White-backed Mousebirds too? Those two are greyer in colour. The ones featured in my video are Speckled Mousebirds.
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Fascinating! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Incredible.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. God Bless.
My pleasure!
Sweet, friendly little birds
Yes they are!
Very interesting. Thanks for the info
Thanks for watching!
Pretty birds
They are pretty and real characters too.
Taken quite a few photos of this wonderful bird, now I’ve learnt the reason for their posture, ons troetel naam is “Tronkvoël”
That's an interesting name. Why tronkvoël? Tronk as in jail?
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Yes Jailbird in English , they look like they are holding the bars in a prison cell 🙂
.....and also eat my green bean shoots.....sigh! sigh!
Shame, they also have to eat too, LOL!
Because they can !
They sure can hang there and push out their bellies. Not many other birds can hang like that.
Extraordinary. Let’s see - bikini sunbathing will reduce the need for diet in humans, too? Worth a try?
😂😂😂
Maybe we should all try sunning our tummies too. We'd all be skinny if it works!
nee wat, they do it because they look adorable and it is lekker!
LOL!
It is interesting to note how mousebirds use temperature as an aid in their survival and behaviour. During cold spells or just before dark, they tend to ‘huddle’ and form a tight group, bunched up next to each other as form of communal roosting. As far as I know it is a thermoregulation to ensure constant body heat when they are resting without expending the individual energy but with the collective body heat transfer between the birds. This has an effect on metabolism too then. I don’t know how accurate this is, perhaps you can do a video of their ‘huddling’ or clustering and provide more insight on the topic, if indeed true?
I have 3 videos on my channel about huddling. This is one of them but about the Bronze Mannikins that huddle: th-cam.com/video/Ovb8kOd16gc/w-d-xo.html
Our mousebirds seem to be grey in colour. Usually we see them in a group of six or so.
What part of SA are you from because there are Red-faced Mousebirds and White-backed Mousebirds too? Those two are greyer in colour. The ones featured in my video are Speckled Mousebirds.
@@lynetterudman Cape Town. They're always guzzling our potato tree.
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White backed Mousebirds, we have dozens flying around SSubs Cape Town
Little characters..
They sure are!