At 08:16 AM 11/23/97 -0800, you wrote:

> About 3 years ago in OLY at the Nisqually wildlife
> Refuge there was a gorgeous male rufous morph..

Given that banding keys desclare that the sex of redtails can't
be accurately determined when the bird is in the hand, I'm curious
as to how you determined this was a male?



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