A toughy! … You're exactly right.. Looks more like a wire strike to me rather than a hawk. The missing feathers are too perfectly missing and smooth on the chest. By the time a BOP starts pulling feathers he's pretty well stomped all over a bird, so there should be a lot of puncture wounds, which is doesn't really look like it has. Looks like it clipped a high wire or tree, shredded the feathers off the chest and caught it's leg which busted it up pretty bad.. I wrote this comment before I heard your final findings, so we were both on the same page.. He must have hit a pear tree in the orchard..
Look like he hit a wire
Brave pigeon.
Purple heart!
One tuff bird.
A toughy! … You're exactly right.. Looks more like a wire strike to me rather than a hawk. The missing feathers are too perfectly missing and smooth on the chest. By the time a BOP starts pulling feathers he's pretty well stomped all over a bird, so there should be a lot of puncture wounds, which is doesn't really look like it has. Looks like it clipped a high wire or tree, shredded the feathers off the chest and caught it's leg which busted it up pretty bad.. I wrote this comment before I heard your final findings, so we were both on the same page.. He must have hit a pear tree in the orchard..
He is going to be good and believe he will fly better most of your other pigeons,, put him back in race once he is good condition