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How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?

To: "'Tony Russell'" <>, "'Peter Shute'" <>, "'Philip Veerman'" <>
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:13:51 +0930
Oops, missed a few birthdays there. I should have said 79.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Russell  
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 8:54 AM
To: 'Peter Shute'; 'Philip Veerman'
Cc: 'Canberra Birds'; 
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?

Averaged 7.08secs. Not bad for an oldie like me  (70).

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 6:05 AM
To: Philip Veerman
Cc: Canberra Birds; 
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?

It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn't made the top
10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I
got bored and came back to it later, I think there's something wrong with
its timer.

Peter Shute

Sent from my iPad

On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> This is just as relevant here as it is in Africa, where this link came 
> from (an email to  Here is a fun 
> little game of finding a Nightjar. It takes just a few minutes. It is 
> designed to test our perception and study camouflage and see how good 
> we are at finding a roosting Nightjar. So the results are compiled and 
> compared according to observer age group. It gives you 20 photos of a 
> Nightjar roosting on the ground and you need to click the mouse on it 
> when you can see it. It gives a give up option for each. It first asks 
> if you want to be a monkey or a mongoose. After each photo it goes to 
> the next. At the end it gives a score of your average time (presumably 
> out of the 20). I don't know what happens with your score if you don't 
> find it or you click the mouse but not on the Nightjar. I don't see if 
> that was explained. My average score on my first time was 6.19 
> seconds, which is not a winning score but then again I think if you do 
> it many times you would get better at it but then it is partly 
> remembering, rather than finding it. Maybe the winning scores would be 
> from those who have done it many times (which I suspect would defeat 
> the purpose of the exercise). Hopefully the researchers have built
something into their methods that take this issue into account.
> 
> For those who don't like Nightjars, maybe you can imagine it is a 
> Night Parrot.
> 
> Philip
> 
> -----Original Message-----From:  
>  On Behalf Of Keith Betton
> Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2013 8:45 AM      To:
>       Subject: [AfricanBirding] How
difficult
> is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
> 
> 
> 
> See how good you are at finding a Nightjar using this test:
> 
> http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/where-is-that-nightjar/
> 
> My fastest average so far is 1.7 seconds, but I have had 5 goes at it!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
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