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    Rough legged buzzard? Goshawk? - NE Scotland

    So just to clarify... You do think that the term 'tail-base' means 'the part of the bird that is close to the tail but not the tail itself'? If so, the way that you use 'tail-base' needs to be defined before it can be understood. So to you it means... upper (or under) tail-coverts? or those...
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    Rough legged buzzard? Goshawk? - NE Scotland

    When I read, or write, 'xxx-base', I understand, or mean, 'the base of the xxx', and not 'the part of the bird that is close to the xxx but not the xxx itself'. Thus 'wing-base' always means 'the base of the wing', never 'the part of the body near the wing'. As far as I've always been aware, the...
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    Rough legged buzzard? Goshawk? - NE Scotland

    Also consider immature golden eagle.
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