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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tyrannulet" data-source="post: 1412073" data-attributes="member: 27213">It is very easy to misjudge size.  When you look at something you are not always capable of seeing size and knowing the dimensions.  I recently had a field lab with my field sampling class.  We were to walk down a measured tape and record the bags that were randomly thrown on either side.  We were then to judge how far away they were from us.  As a whole the majority of us over-estimated the distances by a fair amount.Back to actual birds, I have seen crows in the distance that I could have sworn were much larger until I took the time to look at it again.  They turned out to be normal size but when you have little to compare them to, size is almost impossible to judge.I am in no way saying you are lying, as we don't know everything about birds and there extremes in size, but I highly doubt that what you saw were truly the dimensions that you think they are.</blockquote>