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over a couple of weeks found several headless, plucked french partridge...couple of days after walked into a clearing and a buzzard was on the ground plucking a fresh headless french partridge....assumed the others were down to a buzzard .....

It is very possible that a stoat killed it and ate the head and the buzzard came later to eat the carcase. I can't imagine a buzzard would eat the head first.

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The plucking will be the other poults

 

Anything that would want to eat the dead poult would be unlikely to waste time plucking un necessarily, as a rule they would pluck enough to eat. Plus wasting time plucking exposes the would be plucker to ground predators!

 

Try looking around the head top of neck or top of back for talon marks as that would suggest bop strike?

 

How are the other birds condition wise, have you picked a few up to see if they have any body?

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