Rich Peet wrote:
>>One of my comments I got about my survey recordings was how I was
>>getting rare recordings of birds, because the bird people quit at
>>sunset. The distribution of night calling birds is much less well
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> known
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>>than daytime callers. I don't specifically record birds, though I'm
>>doing a little more since finding that out.
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>>Walt
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> Some of us are paying attention to the nite.
I know that there are those that do pay attention to the night.
The comment I got was from the person managing the local bird survey,
equivalent to the herp survey I play with. They are probably right that
the far majority of birdwatchers don't do night, so the night birds are
underrepresented in surveys.
It's not just birds, a lot of herp folks quit at night too. I know of
several contract surveys for the military bases in the area where the
group doing the survey only worked from 9-5. When I've been out on herp
forays with groups it's hard to get them to go more than a hour or so
after dark at best. Some frogs don't even get going that quickly. While
others quit early. It amounts to going most of the night to be sure.
Walt
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