Re: SCAUP

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Posted by Phil Pickering (208.46.229.79) on January 19, 2002 at 19:58:54:

In Reply to: SCAUP posted by GARY POTTER on January 16, 2002 at 13:48:42:

I agree, no one should be unhappy with this outcome - it is quite illuminating. If being right matters, just guess every possible answer like I usually do! I don't think this was too hard or unfair a mystery at all - it's not like the birds are blurry dots flying away from the camera.

I tried Joe's head width/body length ratio trick and it seems to work quite consistently given anything reasonably close to a side profile. It's interesting how frequently differences in head and body proportion ends up working for difficult to separate species pairs when all else fails. Probably works for phainopepidonax's, too.

Cheers,

Phil

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: I agree, no one should be unhappy with this outcome - it is quite illuminating. If being right matters, just guess every possible answer like I usually do! I don't think this was too hard or unfair a mystery at all - it's not like the birds are blurry dots flying away from the camera. : I tried Joe's head width/body length ratio trick and it seems to work quite consistently given anything reasonably close to a side profile. It's interesting how frequently differences in head and body proportion ends up working for difficult to separate species pairs when all else fails. Probably works for phainopepidonax's, too. : Cheers, : Phil

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