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Subject: which hawk ?
From: Judithla <>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:28:21 +1000
Greetings, all.

Here are measurements for an Accipiter found dead yesterday on the back landing 
here, beneath a hard-sheltered water bowl frequented by local passerines. These 
measurements I’ve compared with the following refs (& their diagrams), reaching 
an uncertain conclusion—
Menkhorst et al, 2017
Simpson & Day, 2004
Debus, 1998
Morcombe, 2000

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The bird’s neck is broken. In the hand it feels broad-shouldered & “heavy”. 
Puzzlingly the beak & cere are all-black, with just the slightest whitish 
thread separating them. 

Ventrally, chest-down the bird is finely barred rufous/white. There is a 
chestnut breast-band > slight dorsal half-collar. Dorsally the bird is brownish 
grey, & the head slate-grey. Brow-ridges are distinct. Tail is barred with a 
ventral bluish cast.

Measures are in CENTIMETRES, taken with a retracting metal household tape:

LENGTH  bill>tail-tip 37
WEIGHT  257g

WINGspan 56 ventrally (incl. chest)
  Single wingspread 30 dorsally (longest flight-feather > shoulder joint)

TAIL  appears notched —
  17.5 dorsally (from feather-base), 17 ventrally (from below cloaca)

BILL  1.5 (+cere=2)
Middle TOE  4.4 (incl. claw): appears longer by one-third than the neighbouring 
two. (Cannot be well-measured due to rigor, & damage.)
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Two choices... What do you think?

Judith
SEQ 500m
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