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15-08-2010, 06:21 PM
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| | | Help identifying feather
Can anyone identify the bird who lost this feather please?
It is 13 cms long and was a found in a grass field. I am hoping it might be a tawny owl's.
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15-08-2010, 08:30 PM
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| | | Re: Help identifying feather
Not quite, it's a Kestrel. |
16-08-2010, 01:06 PM
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Thanks. Now I know. |
16-08-2010, 08:35 PM
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| | | Re: Help identifying feather
That's solved a problem for me too, as I found two of these recently. Thank you. |
17-08-2010, 07:54 AM
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| | | Re: Help identifying feather
It looks quite broad for a kestrel.... Though I'm no feather expert!
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17-08-2010, 08:51 AM
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| | | Re: Help identifying feather
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  It looks quite broad for a kestrel.... | That was my thought too, I'm not sure where you could put a feather 13cm long and that wide on a kestrel.
I would say buzzard but then I'm no expert either and I've never plucked a kestrel 
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17-08-2010, 09:49 AM
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I am a bit of a feather expert 
It's an inner primary. Remember that about 2 cm will be in the bird, and 13 cm isn't that big anyway. A buzzard inner primary is about 20 cm long (outer primaries over a foot long), and much more finely barred. The kestrel's colour is also very distinctive, expecially the russet hue. Tawny Owls are more lightly barred, more sandy brown in colour, and have a characteristic soft 'furry' surface that you don't see in other birds except owls.
Tawny Owl wing: Big birds, and others [scroll down]
Buzzard: Pictures of bird, buzzard, feathers 114518 - Search Stock Photos, Images, Photographs, and Photo Clip Art - 114518.jpg
Kestrel (scroll down to wing): June miscellany
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17-08-2010, 10:36 AM
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That was really interesting! I've bookmarked it.
I find feathers really quite difficult, even when you have a pile of feathers to help you guess the species I sometimes find it difficult.
I even once found a whole pair of wings in a field covered in soil and it took me ages to work out that they were heron wings not buzzard wings!
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17-08-2010, 11:33 AM
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Excellent links RKB, you know your stuff 
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17-08-2010, 07:50 PM
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| | | Re: Help identifying feather
[quote=RKB;665602]I am a bit of a feather expert
Maybe you should have kept that quiet as I have loads of feathers waiting for I.D. 
The links you gave were very helpful. Thank you. | | |
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