Big bird carcass a secret
Photo: Sylvia Voets
The discovery of a big bird carcass on the coasts of Kalamalka Lake has lots of questioning what sort of bird it came from.
The carcass is chosen tidy and its head and beak are gone, making recognition harder.
But professional photographer Sylvia Voets says the bird’s wingspan is most likely 3 feet or more … “longer than your arm.”
She encountered the discovery Sunday along the Okanagan Rail Trail, at Kekuli Bay Provincial Park, simply past the boat Launch.
Black plumes are still connected to the wings.
When Voets published images to the Hell Yeah Vernon! Facebook group, lots of hypothesized it might be an eagle or blue heron.
But regional wildlife professional Pete Wise says the pigmentation is incorrect for a heron.
“An eagle, perhaps,” Wise said Monday. “It may even be a raven.”
He said without something in the images for scale or a first-hand examination, it’s too hard to inform.
It’s uncertain how the bird satisfied its end, whether by natural causes, predation, human dispute, and even poisoning, as insect toxins can go up the food cycle, damaging birds or other animals.
Castanet has actually connected to the BC Conservation Officer Service for its analysis of the images and what to do if you discover a dead animal in the wild.
