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RE: Odd Great Blue Heron Behavior



>The bird was definitely NOT sitting, she was kneeling.  After a while she
disappeared.  We >have eleven heron nests here at Greenview and I've never
observed this behavior before.
>Has anyone else out there seen birds kneel this way?

Only babies or juveniles, not adults.  I don't know a thing about the west
nile virus though, is this a common trait of an infected bird?

Craig Armstrong / Chapel Hill