Maine Audubon is sponsoring an owl count this year -- and future years,
hopefully. At each site we will play a tape of the three common owls of
Maine (in specified order). They recommend not playing tapes at other
times because of the disturbance problems. The common owls are barred,
great-horned, and saw-whet. For the others, we are left a bit more on our=
own. I am not crazy about the tape. I get distortion whatever machine I
play it on. Wonder how it will work in the field.
Don Tarbet
At 08:15 AM 2/27/02 -0800, Gordon Hempton wrote:
>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 are=
a
>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 lik=
e
>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 d=
o
>it.
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