I doubt that you would go along with the concept of use of playback
for mistnetting songbirds and protending that the results have
anything to do with populations in reality.
I doubt that you teach your students to use playback inorder to
record sound of routine songbirds and to determine numbers of nest
sites in a rare breeding area.
I doubt that you advertise that your class teaches callback as a
selling point in your bird field classes.
Our University of MN does.
Rich Peet
--- In "Barb Beck" <>
wrote:
> Hey Rich - I am an adjunct prof at the University of Alberta. Does
that
> make me all bad.
>
> Barb Beck
> Edmonton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Peet
> Sent: July 2, 2003 6:58 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists]using playback
>
> For my location that too is to kind. The worst are
> the "professionals". And the worst professionals are the University
> based scientists.
>
> Rich Peet
>
> --- In Doug Von Gausig <>
> wrote:
> > At 03:02 PM 7/2/2003, Jeremy Minnswrote:
> > >Barb,
> > >
> > >A quick reply as I am off to northeast Brazil tomorrow for three
> weeks.
> > >
> > >I try to record the natural song wherever possible and use
> playback mainly
> > >to attract a bird that is vocalising so I can see and identify
it.
> Remember
> > >that in tropical forests there are a lot of species and many of
> these are
> > >very little known. For some species there are no commercially
> available
> > >recordings and without playback I would end up with a lot of
> unidentified
> > >vocalisations.
> >
> > Also, you are a professional ornithologist, and we normally
assume
> that
> > scientists have the good sense and sensitivity to know when, where
> and how
> > to use playback only to further scientific cause. This isn't
always
> the
> > case with the birding or guiding community, who might use playback
> in an
> > irresponsible way, or for less than scientific purposes. My
opinion
> is that
> > playback is a scientific tool, not a birding tool.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > Doug Von Gausig
> > Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
> > Moderator
> > Nature Recordists e-mail group
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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