Tuesday, September 8, 2020

My Question to you

 My question to you is the same question to yourself. The word was to keep the bedroom doors closed. Then the comment,” Why did you open the bedroom door to go into the bedroom”. You have answered your question.

If there is a perched raptor in your yard and then it takes flight and you come to me with your description of the hawk wanting to know the type of hawk, I will ask you— Did the hawk have a long tail. If you say, “ I don’t know”, then you have answered your own question. The answer is — No. Possibly 90% of raptors observed are not heading directly only/just away either head-on or tail on. You might say that your were observing the head or the wings or the chest and belly. It does not matter. If the tail was long you would have noticed it. But, to get into another phase of hawking, tail length is not going to give you the species. In fact, the bird does not have to show/have any tail in order to name the family or the species. So, as I have published, Tails do not Nail. To call a species of accipiter it is critical to know wing beats, wing shape and proportions and wing holdings. NB.

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