I am no mystery man

I am not particularly interested in perched raptors - to me a perched raptor is a dead raptor - as is a stuffed animal. Please do not ask me why I have a passion for wild, Northern Goshawks. And don't ask me what field marks I use to identify Goshawks. Do you think I am more knowledgeable than David Sibley or William Clark, when it comes to field marks? Do you think I side-step the concrete information contained in field guides, relating toward raptor field marks? Of course not! But - as an aside - other (new) field marks are being introduced. No matter - field marks are not the bird (just a part of the bird).