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More feathers for ID

To: "'Margaret Leggoe'" <>, "'Stuart Rae'" <>, "'COG List'" <>
Subject: More feathers for ID
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:25:29 +1100
This week's Canberra Chronicle (17 March, page 7) http://thechronicle.realviewdigital.com/#folio=6 has a photo of a fox with a dead chicken, I assume a Rhode Island Red in Holder. It later returned to kill a turkey.
 
Philip
 
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From: Stuart Rae [
Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2015 12:34 PM
To: Margaret Leggoe
Cc: canberra birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] More feathers for ID

 

Hi Margaret,

 

Those feathers are from a domestic chicken, a Rhode Island Red, a common backyard chook for good egg supply. The bird had been taken by a red fox as can be determined by the bitten-off ends to the feather shafts.

 

Stuart

 

On 15 February 2015 at 12:08, Margaret Leggoe <> wrote:

Dear COGs,

I saw these feathers on Callum Brae (Zoo Corner) this morning.  Have no idea what bird they are from.  Colour-wise, they look about the same as the breast feathers of a hobby, but are they all breast feathers?  There is no suggestion of banding on any of them.

Would appreciate any help with this puzzle (for me).

 

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While on the subject of Zoo Corner, I was very happy to find the small birds returning to the location after so much undergrowth was cleared away 2-3 years ago. 

White-throated gerygone,

Weebill,

Grey fantail

Superb fairy-wren,

Yellow-rumped thornbill,

and a small bird with a “zitting” sound, possibly a striated thornbill or scrubwren, or hopefully, speckled warblers, but somehow the sound wasn’t quite like theirs.

Across the fence in the zoo grounds a corella pair were looking very domestic in a nicely smoothed tree hollow.

Three yellow-tailed black cockatoos flew over and went somewhere.

Well worth visiting.

Leaf curl spiders are hanging from practically every dead or living sapling.

 

Margaret Leggoe

 



 

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