Why do most birds bob their head back and forth when they walk?

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Why do most birds bob their head back and forth when they walk?

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It’s either a product of the birds visual fixation or depth perception. A lot of birds’ eyes have non overlapping fields of view which makes them hard to tell how far away things are. They use motion parallax to solve this by bobbing or turning their heads.

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