On the Feather Atlas’s behalf, I discovered that if you use their filtering search page, they do list helmeted guinea fowl as a possibility…which is surprising.
> On Apr 13, 2017, at 9:22 AM, Maeve Kim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks to everyone who IDed the mystery feathers at Woodside (where they’ve been for several months; we saw them first in early March, and Shirley saw them back in January). A Helmeted Guinea Fowl it is - or was. We’d tried the feather atlas for help and woodpeckers were the closest possibility - but there are an awful lot of feathers for even a good-sized woodpecker!
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