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23-08-2010, 11:32 AM
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| | | Unusual quarry
Just been to a neighbours house as I'm fish-sitting and found a pile of plucked feathers to one side of the garden. I'm certain they are Magpie feathers and they don't appear to have the chewed ends to the quills that you would expect with a fox kill. They are clearly plucked. I suspect it's a sparrowhawk kill but I've never seen a magpie as sprawk quarry before. Anyone else seen this? I suppose it could have been sick/already injured. Your comments please.
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23-08-2010, 11:35 AM
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Sparrowhawks and Goshawks often predate corvids. The same can be said for other birds of prey like peregrine etc. Red kites often predate corvid nests too. |
23-08-2010, 11:41 AM
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Cheers. DH. More likely to be the female, do you think?
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23-08-2010, 11:48 AM
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You would expect it to be a female as males generally take smaller birds sparrow, blue tit etc. |
23-08-2010, 12:05 PM
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i have seen a male sparrow hawk take a magpie and collard doves and a young woody 
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