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To make a long story short, I was in Ecuador recently although the pandemic was still raging in some parts of the world. It rained quite a bit while I was there. Actually, it rained everyday. The smaller birds didn't seem to mind much. Hummingbirds love gloomy and/or rainy days. Some of them did get drenched but they were still active and they could shake the water off, just like dogs do, after the rain stopped.
Largish birds, on the other hand, I saw them at a few occasions, became somewhat lethargic. They stayed perched and moved their head back and forth or up and down and did so at a slow motion. You could literally moved in closer for close-up, within reason, of course, and they stayed put. One interesting aspect of the the rain, because their feathers are completely hydrophobic, beads of water just stayed on the top of there head or body. There are 3 birds the feather of which, I noticed to have that characteristic: Toucan Barbet, Plate-billed Mountain Toucan and Crimson-rump Toucanet. And here are some images of them during heavy rain.
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1. Toucan Barbet
2. Toucan Barbet
3. Plate-billed Mountain Toucan
4. Plate-billed Mountain Toucan
5. Crimson-rump Toucanet
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