Many years ago, National Geographic Magazine described people who research accipiters as being merely accipiter observers, because the birds are so hard to get close to. As for owls, which are many times more difficult to approach than accipiters, those who wish to research them are generally regarded as dreamers.
多年前，國家地理雜誌曾形容研究鷹類的人，不過是鷹類的觀察者，因為它們太難接近；至於想研究比鷹類難上許多倍的貓頭鷹，通常會被視為狂想者。