Stunted.

[Murray]

That youngster must have had an awful fright to behave like that and then have that happen to the flights. Poor bloke. If he's off Champ I'd be giving him a try in the stock shed too.

[Andy]

Blimey Andy that's unusual. Was there any visible damage to th9se flights before they broke off.

No not at all Dave. I just picked him up one day and all four end flights were gone from each wing. Not fallen out or pulled. Broken off about quarter of an inch from the base. But as I said now that he has moulted through these flights, naturally, the new flights are perfect.
I spoke to Dave Staddon about it and although he didn’t really have the answer as to why we did wonder whether it was something to do with stress from that first training toss.
Still going to give him a chance at breeding.

[Diamond Dave]

Hmmm. a bit tenuous but we have some good friends in our village who worked in the Foriegn office.
Every couple of years they would move to a different
country to work in the Embassy for a year or so.
Their daughter spent the first 15 years of her life doing that but she got to the age where she didn't want to go and she started gradually pulling her out.
Do you think that your bird could have done that himself because he didn't want to fly out for fear of a hawk attack?