There is alerady web site associated with the group where you can go to
exchange files and photos. Just go to the group web site and click photos
or files from the selections at the left of the message headers.
Barb
-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Robb
Sent: March 17, 2004 12:07 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Sound files may now be posted in messages!
Hi Doug,
I am one of those for whom attachments are not welcome, simply because
I travel a lot. In some countries it takes forever even to download
simple text email. I also have a limited mailbox capacity and sound
files I don't really need from the group could be blocking important
stuff. Recently when I came back from a 3 week trip to the Cape Verde
Islands there were about 450 mails from NatureRecordists and it's taken
me 2 weeks to catch up with reading them! Even if there was had been
just one sound attachment per 50 mails they could have taken up about
40% of my mailbox in just 3 weeks! I don't know anything about
administrating such groups, but if it were available I'd sign up for an
attachment-free version and hope that those that want the attachments
in their email can have them. Then I'd download the sounds when I want
to (probably most of the time when not travelling) from some webpage.
Could you arrange something like this? It would be a pity to have to
sign off completely every time I go travelling. Or is the solution to
read the messages (and download the sounds when I want to) on the
Yahoogroups website?
Anyway... your mystery sound: it's a mystery to me too. Whatever it is
I don't think I've heard one this (east) side of the Atlantic! Sounds
like you're going to surprise us so here's a wild guess: maybe it's
some kind of musical raptor (reminds me vaguely of 'our' Short-toed
Eagle) but the fact there's more than one may count against this; or
could it be a not so virtuosic very slow vireo of some kind...? On the
other hand, if I had to guess the biotope from the sound I might go for
a desert habitat. In the deserts of north Africa and central Asia the
few birds that live there often have much slower, less detailed,
lower-pitched, mellower and more whistling songs than their relatives
from other habitats. Examples include the amazing Hoopoe Lark and the
Desert Wheatear.
cheers,
Magnus Robb
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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