Subject: Re: Raptor I.D.
Date: Nov 23 12:03:19 1997
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 11:44 AM 11/23/97 -0800, you wrote:
> the males I've seen have been noticeably
> smaller than the females

While on average this is true, the reason the banding keys don't allow sexing
is that there's far too much overlap to do so with confidence based on size.

That, of course, being my point.



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