On Throw Back Thursday:
Like us birds drink more water in the summer heat. Have you noticed they use different drinking techniques? Some drink with faces down, others tilt their faces up.
These house sparrows appear to be using the face-down technique on a martini. But wait! The glass held ice cream and they’re picking at the remains. So what do they really do?
Find out how birds drink in this vintage article from 2010:
(photo from Wikimedia Commons. Click on the image to see the original.)