This fell from the sky if front of my niece no doubt dropped by a corvid any suggestion on i.d.?pheasant was my first thought
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Maybe the egg and chick aren't connected
could be a pippit chick going with claws and poss woodies egg. a corvid could carry more than one object, doesn't look like the crash helmet worked
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was it dead
It doesn't look too healthy, Penny!
Blimey though, what a thing to drop from the sky!
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I did wonder if they were connected or not as the chick seems to be to big and to advanced to have just hatched to me but this is how it apparently fell out of the sky.I did query what she had been drinking but there were no pink elephants in the area !!
The bird looks like a Wren- and I dont think its the chick from the egg
The tail certainly looks wren like and to me the egg looks like pale shelled pheasant egg.
Well I think it answers an age old question!!! Which came first? They evidently came together! Lol! (Sorry....!)
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MarJus,that is better than my first comments when my Niece sent me about 12 pictures with a demand for answers !!!
Hi Seaman - how intriguing!. How big was the chick? I managed to get this pic of a newly fledged wren and it was so tiny- the feathers/tail do look very similar to your poor chick.
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Looks like the egg of wood pigeon, with the young body of a wren.
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I think the Wren/Pigeon egg seems about right how the heck they ended up together and being dropped by what may have been a corvid will no doubt remain a mystery.Thanks to those who scratched their heads on this.
I am still scratching my head! My dad is on holiday for the week and I will show him this when he gets back! I bet it will baffle him as well...very interesting.
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Seaman I think the Wren/Pigeon egg seems about right how the heck they ended up together and being dropped by what may have been a corvid will no doubt remain a mystery.Thanks to those who scratched their heads on this.
A Corvid raids the nest of a bird in a tree. Drops an egg over the side of the nest but feeds on the rest. Being a clever Corvid iy knows it has pushed an egg out and goes to retrieve it at the bottom of the tree. In the meanwhile a (Wren) ground level flodgling finds the broken egg and begins to feed on the protein ( no other bodily remains suggests a relatively newly laid egg?). Corvid finds a bumper bonus bundle when it retrieves the egg and decides to carry the whole lot off to eat leater or feed to own family partner. It then gets mugged or just clumsy and drops cargo. I think that it looks like my pictures of Wren fledglings too.
I don't see this being made into a movie by Speilberg but would probably do for an episode of Midsomer Murders(-:).
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Love it Bob my niece will probably drink out for weeks with this story in her local pub.