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01-05-2007, 07:26 PM
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| |  Moorhen Chick
Hi All,
Managed to grab a couple of decent shots of a newly fledged (well left the nest) Moorhen Chick earlier today. What a lovely little thing, has still got his/her bum fluff feathers!  
Steve 
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01-05-2007, 08:03 PM
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Lovely shots, sweet in an ugly kind of way!
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01-05-2007, 08:43 PM
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Steve
Your thread reminded me of a waterlogged Moorhen chick that I fished out of the river Soar some years ago. Sadly it died very soon after but I was amazed to see that it had a claw on each of the "elbow joints" on it's wings (sorry, I don't know the correct terminology).
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01-05-2007, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Ann2  Steve
Your thread reminded me of a waterlogged Moorhen chick that I fished out of the river Soar some years ago. Sadly it died very soon after but I was amazed to see that it had a claw on each of the "elbow joints" on it's wings (sorry, I don't know the correct terminology).
Ann | ...to climb out of sticky situations. Left over form pterodactyls?
Lovely shots, funny looking little things, don't have the cuteness factor of ducklings but still sweet.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ann2 Steve
Your thread reminded me of a waterlogged Moorhen chick that I fished out of the river Soar some years ago. Sadly it died very soon after but I was amazed to see that it had a claw on each of the "elbow joints" on it's wings (sorry, I don't know the correct terminology).
Ann | I think what you describe as the "elbow joints" were actually the wrist joints, and the claw would be part of the thumb - haven't got my bird anatomy book to hand but I think it has a special name (other than thumb, I mean!)
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Isn't that a nursery rhyme?
The head bone's connected to the neck bone, the neck bone's connecetd to the shoulder bone ...........
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