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ID from Feathers? (1 Viewer)

soupdragon10

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I'm currently on a rig in the North Sea and we have 2 raptors out here.

The feathers are from something that was eaten by one of them. I was wondering what it might have been? I've seen a few brief glimpses of small possibly greeny/yellow passerines shooting about the place but nothing long enough to get a good idea of what they are (or were in this case)

Too much of a stretch to get an ID from the feathers? From left to right they are 40mm, 38mm & 41mm in length.

On a side note one of the raptors is a Kestrel the other looks a bit too stocky and dark to me to be a Kestrel but hard to get a good look at that bird, seems a little more skittish than the other...similar size to the Kessie though.

Only pair of bins on the rig have a knackered prism after being dropped so they're not much help :(
 

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