Incredibly slow on ADSL, I gave after 5 minutes.....
On 23/08/2013 12:34 PM, "Peter Shute" <> wrote:
> Did anyone else find it very slow to load each photo? I think it was well
> over a minute, so I gave up.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > On Behalf Of
> > Jenny Stiles
> > Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 12:21 PM
> > To: Gary Davidson; birding-aus
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How difficult is it to find a
> > roosting Nightjar?
> >
> >
> > Hi Gary,
> > If you wait a little while it ask you a few questions [age,
> > if you have played before & if you want to view as a Mongoose
> > or a Monkey] & then load the pictures 1 at a time. I played
> > for an average score of 4.35 seconds on my first try.
> > From Jenny Stiles
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Davidson
> > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:58 AM
> > To: birding-aus
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How difficult is it to find a
> > roosting Nightjar?
> >
> > Am I missing something here?! Every time I go to this link, I
> > get a stratic screen with designs on it. Looks kind of like a
> > camoflague pattern, but certainly no photographs!
> > Any ideas??
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Tony Russell <>
> > To: 'Tony Russell' <>; 'Peter Shute'
> > <>; 'Philip Veerman' <>
> > Cc: 'Canberra Birds' <>;
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:43:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How difficult is it to find a
> > roosting Nightjar?
> >
> >
> > 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: RE: [Birding-Aus] 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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