Found this feather a while ago.
think it’s some typ of falcon feather, but not shaw
wimmer/mally region, Victoria.
sorry for the photo quality.
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I have previously found a feather almost exactly like this in the Riverina, NSW. Could it potentially be a Whistling Kite? I never got to indentify mine but it is the only bird around my area that I think the feather may belong to. I haven’t yet had a confirmed sighting but I have on 1 or 2 occasions seen a large raptor in the area that (as far as I can see) fits the basic description.
Oh, forgot to say the feather is around 20cm
Wimmera mally region, Vic.
Strike the kite idea, I now remember wondering if mine was some kind of owl. A Boobook perhaps? A while ago, I found some more similar feathers in a hollow of a massive old fallen eucalypt. Mine was also about 20 cm.
Yer, whistling kite would make sence, do see a lot of them around. And at the time I found it there weren’t many peregrines.
boo book would be less lickly. The feather is not soft like owl feathers are.
Wimmera mally region, Vic.
Barking Owl the first thing that came to mind. I may well be wrong. Lorne