This week I have a skull from the reference collections of the Dead Zoo for you to identify:
If you have an idea what this curvy billed bird might be, let me know in the comments below – and if you don’t, why not have a guess?
Friday mystery object #547
Could this curly-beaked bird be the same one that allowed Chris Packham to introduce the world to ‘Rhynchokinesis’?
If you’re thinking Woodcock, then nope!
I was going for Curlew as a shot in the dark!
Lost its mandible has it… to fine to be the sacred egytian bird. A funny deity?
If you’re thinking of the holy bin chicken, then you’re close, but not quite there!
Related to the famous bin chicken of Oz, I think this one comes from the Americas and shares its name with Dumbledore.
Close, but no cigar!
I’m sure I’m wrong here, but it reminds me of the bird that is the logo of the RSPB, which your dad and I were lucky enough to see at Minsmere once.
Ah, the bill of that species (the Avocet) bends in the other direction!
it looks like one of the smaller ibisses, the red one?
No blush on this species
Long-billed would be too easy, probably!
Accurate, but not very precise 😉
Yep. That’s me, alas.
We just had a New Moon… which downward crescent shape and bent archer’s bow make me think of this fabulous warbler!