Hello, tweets.

I haven?t been following this closely so don?t know if someone else might have explained it.

When raptors eat big meals, it fills their crops to the point that they can push out through the breast feathers, because there are feather tracts on the body and gaps between them. I don?t think it?s anything unusual (real raptor experts, correct me if I?m wrong in this case).

Dennis Paulson
Seattle

On Jun 17, 2015, at 12:00 PM, tweeters-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu wrote:

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> Last year I photographed a crested caracara in Chiriqu? Panama region with a similar but much larger goiter or whatever that is on its breast
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> Mark Tomboulian