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["Charles P. Nicholson" <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carol,
Because a Guinea fowl weighs at least 3 or 4 pounds, and a large =
Cooper's
hawk might, at most, weigh 1 1/3 pounds, it is unlikely that your =
Cooper's
hawk has been preying on the Guineas in your yard. If the Cooper's hawk =
is
killing Guineas, it would have a lot of trouble carrying the carcass any
distance, and I think you would find more remains than just feathers.
Unless a dog or some other mammal is hauling off the remains...

Chuck Nicholson
Norris, TN


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Behalf Of Carole Gobert
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:30 PM
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: feather question


I just answered my own question.  I looked on the web and found =
photographs=20
of guinea fowl feathers that look exactly like those in my thicket.

Carole Gobert
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

>From: "Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [TN-Bird] feather question
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:14:24 -0500
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>I could use some help identifying a bird from a pile of feathers. =20
>Saturday a large scattering of black and white feathers appeared in and =

>around the small thicket behind my house.  A Cooper's hawk has been=20
>hanging out there. In fact, when I walked into the thicket to examine=20
>the feathers yesterday, I surprised the hawk (actually, we surprised=20
>each other) and it flew away. Some of the smaller feathers are pure=20
>white and the larger ones are gray along the shaft and then black with=20
>large white spots.  Do red bellied woodpeckers have spotted feathers?
>
>I have been finding these feathers in my yard for a couple years... one =

>at
>a
>time, and I always thought they belonged to the helmeted guinea fowls =
that
>are kept by someone up the street and allowed to roam free.  My back =
yard
>feeders and bird bath are a favorite place for these fowl to visit.  =
But
>upon finding so many of them and suspecting a Cooper's hawk, I wonder =
could
>a Cooper's hawk really take down a guinea fowl which is quite a large =
bird?
>
>If the feathers belong to a woodpecker, wouldn't at least some of them=20
>be striped?
>
>Of course, I'm hoping it was a guinea fowl.  There have been 5 of them=20
>lately and I will count them the next time I see them.  I haven't seen=20
>them since finding the feathers, but then I wasn't home much this=20
>weekend.
>
>I'd appreciate any help you can offer on this.  Thanks.
>
>Carole Gobert
>Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
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