Birds feet

["Chris Lloyd" <>]

I have to concur with Peter's comment on the capacity of even relatively
small passerines to break skin with their claws. I have handled a couple of
hundred wild birds a year for the last decade and one of the species that
gives me most grief is the Red Wattlebird. All the HEs don't seem to care
whether its stick like finger or a flat palm they just jab the hallux in as
far as it will go. Skuas and FF Shearwaters do a nice line claw/talon
torture as well! Ciao

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