Faster than a speeding bullet.
Tried to get an image of a warbling vireo doing its splash and dash bath.
1/500 sec at 12 frames a second and it is badly blurred.
Talk about a fast bath.
Vireo gilvus
Warbling Vireos have a good name—the males sing a fast, up-and-down, rollicking song that suits the word “warbling.” The early twentieth century ornithologist William Dawson described the song this way: “fresh as apples and as sweet as apple blossoms comes that dear, homely song from the willows.” The highly variable song usually ends on a high note, leading the birder Pete Dunne to describe it as sounding “like a happy drunk making a conversational point at a party.”
source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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