A. R. Weisbrod (drawings by W. C. Dilger), "Grooming Behaviors of the Blue Jay," The Living Bird, Tenth Annual, 1971

ANTING SEQUENCE DRAWN FROM A HIGH-SPEED MOTION-PICTURE FILM

During the application of the ant to the wing, the bird wipes the ant along the remiges in a manner suggesting bill-wiping. No contact is made with the crissum or retrices. Note that the jay discards the ant in frame 8.