I'm wondering if anyone uses song playback to call down their subject,
shortening the sound hunt by drawing the animal in close and provoking a
loud response? Playback of songs/calls is widely used in owl census
(particularly for Northern Spotted Owl, for example where a very large area
must be surveyed with limited resources), and also to bring a bull elk in
closer, trumpeting boldly, etc. It has also been so overused in the past
that places like Cave Creek in the SW have signs posted "NO SOUND
RECORDING."
PLAYBACK seems to me like chumming for fish at best, or worse, out and out
wildlife harassment. Is there anyone out there in the group that would like
to defend 'playback' as a ethical technique? I'd be interested is hearing
the views/confessions of someone who has done it or perhaps continues to do
it.
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