Hi everyone
A colleague who is a biology teacher showed me a nice little skull
today - a bird of prey, amazingly intact, with just about all the
lower mandible and everything. I was surprised how big it was -
maybe 7 or 8 cm long and 4 or 5 wide (I'm hopeless at guessing
distances).
Can anyone please tell us what measurements to take to be able to
identify the species? I think it looks like a peregrine falcon, but
I've been wrong with a live bird once or twice (!!) so I'd take my ID
of the skull with a grain of salt.
It was found near the Geelong Grammar School property boundary, not
far from the western shores of Corio Bay. The BOPs I've recorded in
the area include:
BS Kite
Whistling Kite
Swamp harrier
Little Eagle
Brown Goshawk
N Kestrel
Brown Falcon
Australian Hobby
Peregrine Falcon
Black Falcon (a few Km away)
Is he allowed to keep the skull? At home? In a school biol lab as a
teaching aid?
Thanks
Russell
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