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Perhaps one of the most effective, and certainly most bizarre, ways birds may rid themselves of parasites is to roll on ant hills, or on the ants themselves. It is believed that the formic acid that ants produce is a kind of pesticide for birds.
Birds will use any available material that they can carry away to build their nest - leaves, sticks, mosses, lichens, feathers. The Australian Yellow-faced honeyeater sometimes filches the thick fur from the back of a koala, a large bear-like mammal, to line its nest.