Body feathers from a Helmeted Guineafowl, a common non-native barnyard fowl good at consuming ticks and whose chatter serves as a good avian watchdog.  Feathers sometimes used in fly tying.

Bob Yunick
Schenectady, NY



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From: Maeve Kim <[log in to unmask]>
To: VTBIRD <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wed, Apr 12, 2017 4:18 pm
Subject: [VTBIRD] help needed with feather ID

Any idea about the unlucky wearer of the feathers in these photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/86960264@N05/?

We found them at Woodside.

Maeve Kim
Jericho Center