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Dear Idoia, I would not dare trying an identification purely from the photo, but whenver you will manage to take the bone to a reference collection I would suggest you try kite (Milvus sp.). Buzzard (Buteo sp.), goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) and peregrine (Falco peregrinus) are compatible in size buy they look morphologically different to me. But this needs checking with the specimen in hand. Cheers, Umberto On 27 December 2011 10:21, Idoia Grau <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Zooarchers, > > I would like to ask for your help again regarding the identification of a > bird bone, in this case a carpo-metacarpus. Unfortunately, I do not have > access now to a bird reference collection and cannot identify the species. > Any help is appreciated. I have uploaded a couple of photos to my Zoobook > profile: > > > http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/carpo-metacarpus-2?context=user#!/photo/carpo-metacarpus-1?context=user > > Thank you very much in advance! And Happy 2012! > Idoia > > Idoia Grau Sologestoa > PhD student > University of the Basque Country > -- Umberto Albarella Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield Northgate House West Street Sheffield S1 4ET United Kingdom Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943 Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563 http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html For MSc in Osteoarchaeology see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/postgraduate/masters/courses-available/osteoarchaeology For Zooarchaeology short course see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/zooarchaeology-lab/short-course For Archaeologists for Global Justice (AGJ) see: http://agj.group.shef.ac.uk/ "only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught we will realise we cannot eat money"