MYNA PHOTOS I got it wrong.

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Oh yes. My apologies. It is not abnormal. I goofed and misunderstood the photo. It is not as I thought, the bird's right foot outer (forward pointing) toe toenail bent around. It is the hind toenail of the left foot, that happens to, at that angle line up with the right outer toe toenail. Quite normal. Geoff set me right by saying "hind claw" to which I thought no, but it is..........Embarrassing.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: Geoffrey Dabb [ Sent: Friday, 22 April 2011 4:35 PM     To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] FW: MYNA PHOTOS

I think it’s just the way that birds with long hind-claws cope with thin perches.  I have a slide somewhere of a pipit on a wire fence with that very long hind-claw similarly pointing skyward.   We all like Martin’s comments.    g

 

From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Friday, 22 April 2011 3:16 PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb'; 'martin butterfield';
Cc: 'chat line'; ;
Subject: MYNA PHOTOS

 

What is with that bird's right outer toe toenail? Or is that part of the branch? It looks like the right outer toe's toenail is completely twisted around and pointing upwards under the middle toe.

 

I liked Martin's comment.........

 

Philip