Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!turing!q1ygq From: J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk (Jonathan Spencer) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Peregrine over Route 1 in New Brunswick, NJ??? Message-ID: <1990Dec3.164235.14061@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 3 Dec 90 16:42:35 GMT References: <10509@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@newcastle.ac.uk Distribution: rec.birds,usa Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU. Lines: 27 In article <10509@helios.TAMU.EDU> e343gv@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gary Varner) writes: >Oh yes, and also, peregrines' hunting styles do not fit the description >very well. Peregrines either "stoop" meaning dive down on their prey >from on high, or exhaust their prey by "ringing up" (as I think it's >called) meaning forcing their prey to try to stay above them (so as >to avoid being nailed in a stoop) thus exhausting them eventually. [...] Well, that's "classic" peregrine style, but not their *only* style of hunting - not by a long way. I've seen peregrines quartering a moor in the style of a harrier. >Finally, there are lots of things bigger than a peregrine, although >I can't (without a bird guide) think of what is bigger _and_ more >like an accipiter or falcon than a hawk as far as its flight >profile goes. "...more like an accipiter of falcon tha a hawk..."? What *is* an Accipiter if it's not a hawk? Jonathan M Spencer =========================================================================== Mail : Computing Lab, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, England Phone : +91 222 8229 ARPA : J.M.Spencer%newcastle.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk JANET : J.M.Spencer@uk.ac.newcastle UUCP : !ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!J.M.Spencer =========================================================================== Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com