{"id":7782,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dustbathing\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","slug":"dustbathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dustbathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustbathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pattern of behavior in some birds characterized by lying on the side and making a small depression in the surface while bill raking, head rubbing, scratching and wing shaking, and scratching on the surface (see figure below). &nbsp;The birds throw particles of surface material over their bodies and the surrounding area during dust bathing, and it ends with ruffling and preening feathers. &nbsp;Also termed sand bathing and litter bathing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image019.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">Dustbathing by sparrows<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"\">See Fixed action pattern (FAP), Grooming<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pattern of behavior in some birds characterized by lying on the side and making a small depression in the surface while bill raking, head rubbing, scratching and wing shaking, and scratching on the surface (see figure below). &nbsp;The birds throw particles of surface material over their bodies and the surrounding area during dust bathing, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dustbathing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dustbathing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}