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Camera-Silens — The Lesser Coucal
Published: 2012-07-31 17:13:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 917; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Centropus bengalensis.Parents returned from Thailand. With prrrey.
And here is the skull of this bird:
The ants just did a tremendous job in cleaning this thing. I also got the claws and a bunch of feathers, photos will follow.
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hats awesome! yea i have a seagull skull in my collection, ants are very helpful lol
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Yep, ants are very useful. They cleaned a 2 cm bird skull which is now the smallest skull I have in my tiny collection . I don't know what bird is, I stolen the head from some cats winch caught the bird, so I couldn't see it's body, but maybe you know what is [link]
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red-backed shrike would have been my very first thought, speaking of its pattern and colouration - although the colours of your specimen are pretty pale compared to other specimens. Let me look it up. *Grabs a birdguide-book*
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I picked up few wing feathers and they where all grey..so I don't think is a red-backed shrike...
At first I thought it might be some sort of tit but I searched and there wasn't any bird to match this one.
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After a bit of researching I think it's Sylvia curruca [link] [link] , obviously Lesser Whitethroat in english
It lives in gardens, parks and open forests, so I think it could fit...
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Aha! The beak from my skull and from the bird in the picture are similar and the few wing feathers I got match the one from this bird. It seems it is a Silvie mică as we call it,somebody told me today it might be it, but I didn't have time to search right now. Thanks a bunch!
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*sehnsüchtig drauf gewartet hat* ... faszinierend. Ich liebe an den Schädeln insbesondere die filigranen Teile und Windungen. All die Holräume, Kurven, Ausbuchtungen und verschieden sichtbar werdende Oberflächen hinterlassen einen künstlerisches Etwas. Wenn man bedenkt, dass es befiedert (etc.) eine vollig andere Wirkung gehabt hat und zuvor noch das "Leben" in gewissem Maße in sich trug wo - mittlerweile -nur noch Fragment und Überbleibsel davon sichtbar ist.
Freu mich auf die detaillierte Aufnahme der Federn. <3
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Das macht am besten Pexi (mit ihrem Federnanteil dann). Mit meiner Dummkamera kann ich das eher vergessen. 8D
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It really is - and so fragile.
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