Monday, September 18, 2006

Feathers for ID

The 250g block of butter and the 50p piece give a size comparison. Clue: this bird breeds on the Continent of Europe but has not bred in Britain for about 900 years, although it is recorded occasionally as a vagrant. First to get it right wins the 50p piece!

5 comments:

Jake Allsop said...

Thanks for trying. If you mean the tail of a dove, sorry! It's a much bigger bird than a dove (guvercin), and it breeds in Turkey, arriving in Spring and leaving at the end of the Summer. I have watched them from the Camlica Hills migrating south across the Bosporus.

Jake Allsop said...

Martin or Swallow, but these feathers are from a much BIGGER bird. Think of a Heron (Balikcil), and it's even bigger than that!

katrice said...

Could it be some kind of eagle?

Jake Allsop said...

Not an eagle, Katrice. Another clue: on this bird, only the flight feathers are black.

Jake Allsop said...

Well done, IamLearningEnglish! Yes, they are flight feathers from a White Stork (Leylek). I collected them when I had lunch with Pascal Etienne, the French man who rehabilitated the injured bird (See my blog for details).
J