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IRescue452
04-24-2007, 07:55 PM
While walking through the woods today I stumbled upon the site where a bird was recently killed. There was obviously a struggle. The predator left no tracks which sucks because I like to try and figure out what animal was there(we have fox, wolf, bear, and everything in between). Anyway, the flight feathers were black and yellow and about 5 inches long. The other feathers were white and black barred. I can't think of any birds around here that fit that description. No warblers here have yellow wings, no orioles. Can any birders think of a bird with yellow wings that I'm not thinking of? I'm beginning to think it was a non-native or domestic bird.

Alysser
04-24-2007, 08:07 PM
This is the only bird I can think of, even though you didn't mention any red.

http://www.coffeecreekwc.org/photos/birds/Red-Winged_Blackbird_(male).jpg

Did you see the bird's body? Maybe it's beak shape? That might help jog my brain.

ETA:

Could possibly be a Meadowlark:
http://www.lewis-clark.org/media/images/bird_west-meadowlark.jpg\

or a Golden Finch
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/Gold_Finch_web.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/woodland_birds_of_opf.htm&h=374&w=400&sz=22&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=e4bIXhuMpGIPNM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgolden%2Bfinch%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1% 26hl%3Den

IRescue452
04-24-2007, 09:54 PM
None of those. No body, thank the lord. The feathers are all yellow with an inch of black on the end. Yellow veins throughout.