#willow warbler skull

[jaketeachesdeath]

Willow Warbler for today's first Bird.

A busy little summer visitor, these guys get a little dancy when on the hunt. Singing away and shaking feathers whilst scouring for insects.

Thier feathers are rather interesting infact, its the primaries that'll give you a clear cut answer on the classic 'is it a Chiffchaff or not' condunrum. In addition to that they even moult twice a year! Once at breeding and again where they overwinter.

This one had little over 2 months before heading back to southern Africa but met its end colliding with a green house in Scotland. Which interestingly enough are seeing a recovery in numbers, unlike England where they are further declines. Since theres been steady declines in numbers Willow Warblers have hit amber status across the UK.

10/11/23

[priestess-of-the-north-west]

Birds on this Tumblr

Black-tailed godwit (Grutto) Blue tit (Pimpelmees) Buzzard (Buizerd) Cormorant (Aalscholver) Crow (Kraai) Dove (Pigeon, Duif) Chickadee (Mees) Common swift (Gierzwaluw) Duck (Eend) Eagle (Arend) European goldfinch (Putter) Falcon (Valk) Greenfinch (Groenling) Grasshopper Warbler (Sprinkhaanzanger) Golden oriole (Wielewaal) Goose (Gans) Great Tit (Koolmees) Gull (Meeuw) Hawk (Havik) Heron (Reiger) Kingfisher (IJsvogel) Kite (Wouw) Northern lapwing (Kieviet) Owl (Uil) Oystercatcher (Scholekster) Peacock (Pauw) Pheasant (Fazant) Raven (Raaf) Robin (Roodborst) Sanderling (Strandloper) Sparrow (Mus) Stonechat (Tapuit) Stork (Ooievaar) Swallow (Zwaluw) Swan (Zwaan) White-tailed eagle (Zee-arend) Willow Ptarmigan (Moerassneeuwhoen) Woodpecker (Specht)

General terms

Bone Egg Eye Feather Meat Nest Newborn Prey bird Skull Wing

[corvus-coraxs]

a little warbler! 💛 this is confirmed to be a Chiffchaff due to the emargination on the primaries as labelled. primary 6 is emarginated on Chiffchaff, but isnt on the otherwise identical Willow Warbler. it was most likely roadkill, and i took its wings, tail, feet, and skull.

[[i live in the UK. all birds i own are legal to own. all have been taken lawfully or were found after natural death.]]

[jaketeachesdeath]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Als phone wont focus on anything close range so we had to resort to using a magnifying glass and a magnifying lid of an insect pot to get these pictures.

But the Willow Warbler skull is pretty much done. Theres a fair bit of damage thats been glued back together though the tiny bit of interorbital septum misaligned in the final seconds.

The quadrates are absolutely tiny.

The peroxide ate at the beak sheath a little more than Id have liked unfortunately but I did manage to pop most of the dent out

01/08/23