I posted a photo of this animal under ID, but nobody answered. I would very much like to know if anyone has any idea? I saw it at some wetland near the beach. Hard to say if it's fur or feathers? I should have poked it, but I think it might have been alive, and I wasn't going to bother it.What do you think? (it was about 20cm long)
Looks like a bird, if you zoom in I think that is a beak. It has been still for a while, if you look closely, is that an ant, slightly left of centre, and about 1/3 up? Hard to tell. Was it moving (breathing)?
Sort of look like Kiwi feathers, very fine.
Dale Huonville, Tasmania
I didn't see it move, the longer I looke at it, the more it looks like the fine feathers of a Grebe? They have that whitish fluffy undercoat? What looks like a beak might also be a tail?
M-L
looks even more like the rear end of a Grebe now, what do you think Dale?
M-L
You have great eyes, to pick out the beak and the ant . But what is it? May be a little penguin chick ?
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
..... what we think could be a tail, zoomed in looks just like some wet feathery fur now?
M-L
Changed my mind on the Grebe, although there some similarities , there are more differences? The fur(?) in the animal is more of the same length?
M-L
Could it be a dead Water Rat???
M-L
Well, I'm baffled.
It looks like feathers, and from their direction we are looking at the head end... yet there's no apparent head.
Maybe it's a feather duster?
You really should have poked it.
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
You are right soakes, the way the fur or feathers point, there should be a head. If the head would be missing, shouldn't there be a hole?
You are right, I should have poked it. Too late now.
M-L
But then we wouldn't have the interesting mystery, M-L
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Maybe the neck and head are folded under the body or wing - where ever they are! I think if it was dead there would be more insects, meaning flies, on and around the bird (they are definitely feathers). Very interesting, M-L.
Alison
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