There are several way to tell Nova and Neander apart. (http://rfalconcam.com/forum/pix/HowTo/FalconIdentification/NovaNeander1.jpg)
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- Nova is bigger than Neander.
- Nova has white feathers above her cere.
- Neander has a white feather on edge of his left wing.
- Nova has dark spots on her white breast. Neander's white breast has short, thin, dark vertical lines.
- The lower edges of Nova's black hood are fairly sharp and distinct on both sides. She also has a strip of white extending back on the left side of her neck.
- Neander has a bit of white fuzziness intruding into the edge of his hood on both sides. The fuzziness is sort of clover shaped.
- Nova has a darker head.
- The back edge of Nova's beak extends further back under her eye than Neander's.