The animal is a spiker so only just 12 months old when shot. The pedicle is still forming and no coronet has been able to form yet. The hard protrusion is unusual and can only be from damage to the...
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The animal is a spiker so only just 12 months old when shot. The pedicle is still forming and no coronet has been able to form yet. The hard protrusion is unusual and can only be from damage to the...
Oh well, next NZDA Notornis discoverer's trophy in 7 yrs:(
The top one is a spiker, we can tell because it has not formed a coronet. Often there is longer hair growing over the future coronet suture, masking the position of the forming coronet. The lower one...
7x61 Sharp & Hart
35 Whelen next ?