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MORE PICS-Brown Goshawk V Collared sparrowhawk

To: "Graham Turner" <>, "Baus" <>
Subject: MORE PICS-Brown Goshawk V Collared sparrowhawk
From: "Peter Shute" <>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:48:43 +1000
Help!  If the tails in the photo showing the two birds flying are
squared, then I don't know what squared means.  Can you explain please?
They look sort of pointy to me.

We are talking about:
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/CollaredSparrow
Hawks.jpg
aren't we?

I guess the different wing shapes could be explained by the fact that
they may have been flapping their wings when the photo was taken, rather
than gliding.

 wrote on Wednesday, 27 August 2008
2:31 PM:

> These are fantastic photos!
>
> To read the size difference in the book is one thing, but to
> see male and
> female side by side is another thing completely. The wing
> shapes are just so
> different, but the squared tail is so obvious.
>
> Cheers
> Graham Turner
>
>
>



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