>How about for Sharpies? -- Don??

Migrating immie female sharpies generally weigh about 160-180g,
adult female sharpies a bit more (tend to be a bit less skinny).
Heaviest we've banded, to my knowledge, was 213g; heaviest I've
banded 208g and I've banded a couple others over 208g (just do
give you some idea of how rare female sharpies over 200g are).

Males weigh somewhat less than females, 120ish grams.

While we're at it, male Coops at our site tend to run 250-350g,
females more like 350-500g, there's seems to be a wide variation
during fall migration, more so than with sharpies. Of course,
migrating birds can lose weight in a hurry...

To get a weird perspective, until this past season I held the
Goshute's record for trapping the lightest red-tail - all of 670g!
Tiny dimensionally, too.

This past year, I broke my own "impoverished tail" record by
trapping one which weighed in at 630g! Tiny...tiny...tiny...

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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