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        Special Topics 特別主題 >> Black-faced Spoonbill 黑臉琵鷺 >>  Black-faced Spoonbill 黑臉琵鷺 A wounded BFS 右翅膀受傷了！
        
(Message started by: 648 on Dec 3^rd, 2002, 4:07pm)

Title: Black-faced Spoonbill 黑臉琵鷺 A wounded BFS 右翅膀受傷了！
Post by 648 on Dec 3^rd, 2002, 4:07pm

036 Black-faced Spoonbill 黑臉琵鷺
Tsim Bei Tsui 尖鼻咀
03/12/2002
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/648/648bfs001.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/648/648bfs002.jpg
右翅膀受傷了！

Title: Re: A wounded BFS 右翅膀受傷了！
Post by Yat-tung YU on Dec 3^rd, 2002, 9:19pm

Which part? I can't see any wound!!!

Title: Re: A wounded BFS 右翅膀受傷了！
Post by gjcarey on Dec 5^th, 2002, 1:38pm

I think that the 'wound' on the right wing is simply feather moult. The bird is nearing the end of replacing its secondaries, and the outermost two are still growing. You'll notice that the same is evident on the left wing also, a good sign that this is normal feather moult.

Geoff Carey