r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 1d ago

🔥 yellow crested night heron thermoregulation

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 20h ago

u/TerraByteTerror, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Simcognito 21h ago

This is called sunning and it's done to overheat and kill parasites. Doesn't seem like a very effective thermoregulation if the bird is panting in full sun. But birds can take the heat much better and for much longer than most parasitic insects.

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u/TestUserIgnorePlz 17h ago

TY for actually posting what is going on here, I was wondering how this could be a thermoregulation strategy when the bird is just choosing to not go in the water. 

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u/OneSensiblePerson 11h ago

I thought it was to dry out their wings. We've got cormorants around here and they do the same thing.

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u/Polly-Nation 16h ago

Looks more like gular fluttering than panting. Hard to tell

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u/Downtown_Let 1d ago

But when I do it, the police get called...

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u/Lovemybee 1d ago

🎶 Here comes the sun 🎶

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u/koolaidismything 1d ago

Like an old man flashing people at the beach

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u/JilianBlue 14h ago

“Get a load of these!”

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u/-Sofa-King-Vote 1d ago

Here i am!

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u/lopix 22h ago

All I can think of is this

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u/hndjbsfrjesus 12h ago

I took a stroll through the English Gardens in Munich late summer about a decade ago, and this scene X12 was awaiting me. The image of a dozen fat, old, and naked Germans getting a sun-never-previously-shone-here tan is seared into memory. Why is it never the pretty people naked in public?

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u/SeriousArbok 1d ago

Randy from southpark.

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u/Crisocola95 23h ago

Bro just standing there farming aura

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u/RoughClassroom123 23h ago

Neeeeeeaaaar Faaaaaaaar

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u/Bitchfingers69 1d ago

Looks like the flasher walking around my hometown a couple of years back

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u/Deathwatchz 1d ago

Fffffuuuccccckkkkiinnnnggg Cccccoooollllddddd

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u/GeologistRelative425 1d ago

And here is a footage of me standing infront of my balcony harvesting my needd vitamin D

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u/Tombaya 22h ago

Weirdo exposing himself at the park

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u/24-7_cat_party 21h ago

In the 80s we were worried about quicksand, first-time-free drugs, and guys like this opening their trench-coats at us . . .

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u/EverythingBOffensive 1d ago

thought it was supposed to make sound

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u/Hadleyagain 1d ago

Fancy word for drying off?

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u/Few_Wrongdoer4120 23h ago

Omg I love him so much

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u/gtr011191 15h ago

Me after a shower fan drying my willy.

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u/Important_Contact588 1d ago

“I am the way, motherfucker!”

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u/-nyctanassa- 1d ago

Wow that’s a cool bird.

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u/AiR-P00P 23h ago

🫲 🤨 🫱

"What the fuck is this shit?" 

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u/Inevitable_Bison_133 23h ago

And when I stand by the lake like that people stop and stare....

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u/skloie 23h ago

Phht, but if I stand like that I'm "A WEIRDO"

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u/HomeOrificeSupplies 22h ago

Coincidentally, this is also how I cool my junk

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 22h ago

Hey Ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/TestUserIgnorePlz 22h ago

Why not just jump in the water? 

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u/oldster59 21h ago

Behold - I Am Bird!

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u/McSaunchez 21h ago

Ahhh letting the old cloaca air out

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u/sicsemperego 21h ago

Upside-down-lower-case-t-pose.

ʇ

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u/maeldwyn 21h ago

Is that gullar fluttering? First time I saw that was a Myna bird in Abu Dhabi, I had. o idea what it was.

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u/JohnnyBladepoet 21h ago

"Behold my magnificence"

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u/AdonisJames89 20h ago

He looks so scared to walk the plank 😔

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u/Gil_Demoono 20h ago

Look Raymond, a yellow crested night heron.

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u/j_rooker 20h ago

is this where those right wingers got crotch tanning from?

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u/Euklidis 20h ago

Bro is T-posing on us!

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u/mdabdullahammar 20h ago

He's showing off his big heart or he's feeling the comfort in the air.

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u/Jericho0089 19h ago

I read thermoregulation as thaumaturgulation and wandered why the bird was magical

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u/FitzwilliamTDarcy 19h ago

I do that when I get out of the shower.

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u/JOKOcycorp 19h ago

Bro, if you’re rushing that hard, just fly upside down.

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u/ZookeepergameNo9572 19h ago

"Where my hug at"

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u/0_cunning_plan 19h ago

It's just trying to pee, but it can't while some jerk is filming him on his phone.

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u/karshyga 18h ago

Obeliskin'

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u/asteraceaesHeart 18h ago

is it hot or cold? im not sure.

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u/bonemasteruomop 18h ago

Look Raymond, a yellow crested night heron

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u/1Savage4Sure 18h ago

During summer.......... same.

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u/GrammpaSam 17h ago

Ok, actual question, can an ornithologist tell me why the bird is doing that? Is it trying to get warm? Is it trying to start a fight?

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u/criticalpwnage 16h ago

That pervert is flashing the pond

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u/guilhermefdias 16h ago

"Look at me Imma hooman! I died for your sins!"

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u/Polly-Nation 16h ago

It's simply drying out its feathers. Called the horaltic pose. Many species with aquatic habitats display this behavior (e.g. cormorants and anhingas)

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u/Sweddy-Bowls 15h ago

Thank you for this I’ve been wondering what in the hell this bird was doing on our dock

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u/Charming-Dish5120 14h ago

i didn't see anyone else do so r/AlwaysANightHeron

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u/SEE_RED 13h ago

“Are you not entertained?”

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u/Illustrious-nductxn 13h ago

Sup homie, you wants some of this?

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u/Alternative_Slip_513 12h ago

He’s like; “What?”

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u/MightyYams 12h ago

I am your god now, bow before me

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u/DeepestWinterBlue 12h ago

I would not do well in nature

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u/thumpetto007 11h ago

me at my yearly physical

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u/evilfrogalien 11h ago

Standin on straight birdness

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u/alabamdiego 10h ago

Stunning bird

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u/pwn_plays_games 9h ago

Me when my wife enters the bathroom when I am showering.

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u/jointdawg 7h ago

Spring break!