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Field Notes
Doug Bell
Location: UC Berkeley Campus
October 19, 1988 -cont #3
It has a long, thick malar strip going all the way to
the upper breast. The breast markings (longitudinal too thin brown markings) on the shaft begin right where
the malar stripes leave off. The entire breast & flanks are
so marked - looks very oddly. The markings on shaft
are too thin for a Peck's. The only clear, unmarked
spot areas on this bird are the throat and an area just
behind the malar and [illegible] below the ears. Some
shaft markings in the clear area on head behind the
+ back of head
malar, where brown nape blends into the area behind
the malar. The nape has two - few strands of light brown,
gold in it, otherwise the back is uniformly dark. There
is no light area or stripes above the eyes, as a E.p.
trendices would have. All things considered, this is
probably a E.p. anatum. The lower belly & flanks has
some thicker shaft-markings, but it is surprisingly
"meat" in appearance. This tunel ate non-stop from
14:00 - 15:00, passing for alert viewing of its surroundings.
It tore chunks of pigeon pelvis, eating smaller pieces of
bone, finally, towards end of its meal, it swallowed
on pink pigeon foot whole. It picked over all last
remaining scraps, as if it just couldn't bring itself
to pass anything up in spite of being loaded with a
full crop. After it finally finished, he walked along
the railing to the NE corner, feasted its fill, stretched,
then after a few minutes it launched itself out and
circled the campuspile for a few times, powering,