this first-winter Marsh Harrier which was hunting Barton pits during the afternoon has sustained some loss of inner primaries on the left and right wings--it appears to be a different bird to that photographed on the 24th even without the wing damage--the tail is also badly abraded---the question thus arises as to what has happened to this bird?
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Looks more like Moulting any Raptors I have rehabilitated I have noticed they drop a pair of Flight Feathers at a time regrow them and then drop the next pair and so on this allows them to continue hunting and feeding.
On Looking at your photograph again tail is severely damaged you may be right in thinking its been thrashing about trying to free itself from something?
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