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Re: Need ID of bird by silhouette please

Subject: Re: Need ID of bird by silhouette please
From: "Wil Hershberger" wil_hershber=
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Date: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:43 am ((PDT))

I concur with the TV ID. The position of the wings is telling.



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From: 
 On Behalf Of Doug Von Gausig
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 12:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Need ID of bird by silhouette please





At 09:03 AM 6/28/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>Maybe someone here can help me with a bird identification, (although
>there is no sound accompaniment in this case).
>
>I am operating a hydrogen-alpha solar telescope for full-time video
>recording and I am pretty sure that this was a vulture that flew by the
>disk of the Sun. But, on the off-chance that it might be some sort of
>hawk I am asking if anyone can be precise in id.
>
>Location: North central New Mexico, 18 miles southeast of Santa Fe.
>
>Tiny movie at 800 KB:
><http://www.heliotown.com/VultureSun20100513_1835UT_Ashcraft.mp4>http://ww=
w
.heliotown.com/VultureSun20100513_1835UT_Ashcraft.mp4
>
>Thank you in advance for letting me take the liberty to ask a visual and
>not audio question and good recording to all.

>From the configuration of the wings and the dihedral, that's probably a
Turkey Vulture.

Cool sun pix, BTW!

Doug
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