Related Behaviours
Dusting with soil from ant-hills has been considered by some as equivalent to anting.
Some birds like antbirds and flickers not only ant, but also consume the ants as an important part of their diet. Other opportunist ant-eating birds include sparrows, wrens, grouse and starlings.
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