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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.
Wil Hershberger
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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:
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>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=
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.heliotown.com/VultureSun20100513_1835UT_Ashcraft.mp4
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>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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