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Forensic ornithology

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Subject: Forensic ornithology
From: "Yarden Oren" <>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:47:36 +1100

Gut content of the cat will be useful info

 

 

From: Margaret Leggoe [
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:51 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Forensic ornithology

 

This morning there was a trail of destruction down the side of my house.  Methinks the neighbour’s cat may be sleeping of a large meal.  My first thought was that it had killed a juvenile magpie, but the breast feathers look quite black, not a white feather to be seen anywhere, and the longest feathers (wing primaries?) were too short for a magpie.  Could this be the remains of a blackbird?  Will an Indian myna be next, or is that too much to hope for?

Margaret Leggoe

 

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