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Allen
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Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« on: Jul 10th, 2006, 10:04pm » |
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Crested Goshawk or Besra? Please identify. Thanks in advance. 9.7.2006 Sai Kung
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Allen
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #2 on: Jul 10th, 2006, 10:18pm » |
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Data added. Thanks Owen.
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #3 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 1:23pm » |
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Another photo of the bird.--same day, same bird. 1/2500 F6.3 09-07-06 Sai Kung
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HF_Cheung
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #4 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 2:39pm » |
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Round tail, and huge burge of the trailing edge of the secondaries. These are good field marks of Crested Goshawk, for separating from Besra. HF Cheung
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Allen
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #5 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 8:32pm » |
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Thanks to Bill for additional photo. And thanks to Fai Gor for detailed explanation. Allen
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Gary
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #6 on: Jul 12th, 2006, 9:07am » |
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #7 on: Jul 12th, 2006, 1:07pm » |
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on Jul 12th, 2006, 9:07am, Gary wrote:¨ä¹ê«Y²Ä¤@±i¬Û«×¥i¥H¨£¨ì»ñÀYÆNÓ"»ñÀY" ¯d·Núï«YÓÀY«á±ªG±ø¤ò. Gary |
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Allen
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #8 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 9:32pm » |
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on Jul 12th, 2006, 1:07pm, isaac_chan wrote: Will it be the tip of a branch only...? |
| I checked other photos, it was not the tip of branch. Allen
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Allen
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Re: Raptor ID please. Crested Goshawk or Besra?
« Reply #9 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 9:36pm » |
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on Jul 12th, 2006, 9:07am, Gary wrote:¨ä¹ê«Y²Ä¤@±i¬Û«×¥i¥H¨£¨ì»ñÀYÆNÓ"»ñÀY" ¯d·Núï«YÓÀY«á±ªG±ø¤ò. Gary |
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