Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Curious

Most every picture of Royal Terns has this sort of feathery dandruff on their bills...

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Ideas anyone?

5 comments:

Caroline said...

My guess is that they are molting into winter plumage and have been preening to remove loose feathers and fix the new ones coming in.
I love their punk hairdo.

Cindy said...

I agree, preening residue. I sure could use a Luka fix!

LauraHinNJ said...

I guess yeah... cause I only see them at this time of year.

Susan Gets Native said...

Sticky oil + down= messies. :)

ReluctantChickenFarmer said...

Too much beer the night before will do that.