I hope those aren't my recordings on the tape. I believe I gave permission
to Maine Audubon to use some of my night sounds. If they're mine, I can
assure you the originals were not distorted.
Lang
> 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 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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