What Is This Bird??? Found An Unusual Wing In Our Horse Field (1 Viewer)

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norders2

New member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #1

Hi guys,

My girlfriend found this wing in her horse's field this morning. I assume a fox has eaten it as they tend to leave the wings, but we have no idea what bird it has come from.

Can anybody identify it?? We live outside of Oxford.

Thank you!

 

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Kratter

Well-known member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #2

Muscovy Duck

Andy
edit: thought I was looking at the upperside of the wing. Agree with Lapwing

 

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Andy Adcock

Worst person on Birdforum

• Dec 11, 2018

• #3

Lapwing?

 

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RafaelMatias

Unknown member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #4

Kratter said:

Muscovy Duck

Andy
edit: thought I was looking at the upperside of the wing. Agree with Lapwing

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Andy, it is the upperside of the wing. Lapwing not a possibility.

 

Corvus cornix

Well-known member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #5

Think I'd go with Muscovy Duck, too.

Cheers,

Matt

 

Andy Adcock

Worst person on Birdforum

• Dec 11, 2018

• #6

Corvus cornix said:

Think I'd go with Muscovy Duck, too.

Cheers,

Matt

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Probably just a farm duck then?

 

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Brett Richards

Well-known member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #7

Looks like Ruddy Shelduck.

Brett

 

PYRTLE

Old Berkshire Boy

• Dec 11, 2018

• #8

Egyptian Goose.

 

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BobbitWorm45

Well-known member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #9

Agree with Egyptian Goose

 

RafaelMatias

Unknown member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #10

Muscovy Duck for me, most likely a farm bird as Andy says.

Compare:
1. Egyptian Goose (thin black line across GC - GC all white in the OP bird; rufous tertials - metalic green and long in the OP bird)
2. Ruddy Shelduck (cinnamon + white tertials); another one here
3. Muscovy Duck

 

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Dec 11, 2018

• #11

Googling images for Egyptian Goose - most images show a thin black bar close in at the base of the white coverts - not present here. Still good?

 

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Brett Richards

Well-known member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #12

RafaelMatias said:

Muscovy Duck for me, most likely a farm bird as Andy says.

Compare:
1. Egyptian Goose (thin black line across GC - GC all white in the OP bird; rufous tertials - metalic green and long in the OP bird)
2. Ruddy Shelduck (cinnamon + white tertials); another one here
3. Muscovy Duck

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Looks spot-on for Ruddy Shelduck. I think it's the humerals that are white, not the tertials, and they (humerals) are missing here, and I think the tertials are as well.

Brett

 

RafaelMatias

Unknown member

• Dec 11, 2018

• #13

Brett Richards said:

Looks spot-on for Ruddy Shelduck. I think it's the humerals that are white, not the tertials, and they (humerals) are missing here, and I think the tertials are as well.

Brett

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Note the long metallic-green feathers the right hand of the observer is holding on the OP photo. Those feathers are a good deal longer than the secondaries (the tip isn't even included in the frame). Admittedly, that is not a Ruddy Shelduck feature, whilst IMO it is typical of Muscovies.

 

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Brett Richards

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• Dec 12, 2018

• #14

RafaelMatias said:

Note the long metallic-green feathers the right hand of the observer is holding on the OP photo. Those feathers are a good deal longer than the secondaries (the tip isn't even included in the frame). Admittedly, that is not a Ruddy Shelduck feature, whilst IMO it is typical of Muscovies.

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Yes, you are right.

Brett