In message <Pine.ULT.3.91.960102153217.3980A-100000 at elwha.evergreen.edu>
writes:
> Alas the poor Ospreys, but Red Crossbills are similarly afflicted. I
> don't know if this is in the Birder's Handbook or not, but it is
> generally well known that the upper mandibles of Red Crossbills below the
> equator cross the lower mandibles to the left, whereas ours cross to
> the right. And vice versa for the lowers. So much for physics, also a vice.
> Steve Herman
;^)

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