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Columba livia
Grey feather with black tip and many small white ones. Tail feather of the common pigeon.
Found lots of feathers in a pile. Don't know what happened here.
Spotted on Aug 14, 2016
Submitted on Aug 26, 2016
1 Comment
Great find! I agree with your ID. It looks like the pigeon was caught by a hawk(if you look up videos you can see how they pluck the birds they eat), or possibly a cat or similar animal, though I've never seen a cat pluck feathers as well as a hawk. It's curious how there only seems to be one tail feather and only a few wing feathers!