Not to worry, Volker. George Bush has promised us relief. I believe!
I believe! Anyway, whenever I have doubts, I turn to a cocktail of
Prozac and Zoloft. Add ice, shake well, and swallow in one gulp. Even
when faced with an apocalypse of mediocrity, everything's coming up
alfalfa sprouts.
Bernie
>Hi Bernie,
>
>this really makes me think once again.
>How actually do you keep yourself from falling into a deep state of
>depression.
>Through your work you have been witness to so much destruction that you
>can even prove with your recordings.
>What can one small nature recordist do than to record what is still left?
>
>Slightly depressed
>
>Volker Widmann
>
>
>Wild Sanctuary schrieb:
>
>> Hi Martyn,
>>
>> Recorded last year in the Galapagos (where I finished a soundscape
>> CD), and in and around the Rio Napo on the eastern side of the Andes.
>> The latter was more disappointing because of habitat incursion
>> (deforestation mostly oil drilling) and because so much of the
>> dynamic equilibrium of the critter mix has been greatly compromised.
>> So it is VERY difficult to find places where the biophonic indicators
>> do not reveal themselves as seriously stressed. Last year I found
>> none despite marching way off into the jungle alone. While recording
>> is possible, the results are not convincing. Most obvious, the
>> monkeys were gone (poached), as well as other four-legged critters
>> for the same reason. And a pall of smoke lies over the canopy each
>> morning as more and more forest is slashed and burned. Not a hopeful
>> scenario. For those who wish more insight into the problem in
>> Ecuador, read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.
>>
>> Bernie Krause
>>
>> >Paul
>> >
>> >Where in Ecuador are you?
>> >I have an assignment to record there next year......
>> >
>> >Martyn
>> >
>> >****************************************
>> >Martyn Stewart
>> >Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
>> >http://www.naturesound.org
>> >Redmond. Washington. USA
>> >N47.65543 W121.98428
>> >
>> >e-mail:
>> >Tel: 425-898-0462
>> >
>> >Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>> >*****************************************
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From:
>> > On Behalf Of Paul Coopmans
>> >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:47 PM
>> >To:
>> >Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Ethics of Using Recordings on
>> Wildlife and
>> >a bit about the tropics
>> >
>> >At 12:19 29-10-05 -0700, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >>Another note, how many people here are actually NATURE RECORDISTS?
>> >>I see many posts of "what the latest recorder, microphone is" but
>> how many
>> >>actually tell of their experiences in the field?
>> >
>> >
>> >OK Martyn,
>> >
>> >Just a few words then about the field experiences. I've been tape
>> recording
>> >bird sounds for nearly 20 years now, mainly in South America, but
>> I've also
>> >done a bit in Africa and Australia.
>> >
>> >When faced with an unknown bird sound in tropical forests, playback
>> is the
>> >best method to identify the source of the sound. In this way other peo=
ple
>> >and I have been able to get 'the first recording' of many species whic=
h
>> >were previously poorly known, and thanks to learning the sound these
>> >species have subsequently been found in other areas, improving our
>> >knowledge about their distribution. Better distributional knowledge
> > >translates into a better knowledge base on which to base conservation
>> >decisions and strategies.
>> >
>> >You can not imagine the thrill of playing back an unknown sound and
>> >suddenly being face to face with a mythical bird which until then was
>> only
>> >known from a few old specimens. With an increased knowledge on the bir=
d
>> >sounds (tape recording is an ideal way of learning) one can also more
>> >quickly pick up anything odd. This is how in the early nineties I
>> >discovered a new flycatcher in Ecuador, which we subsequently
>> described as
> > >Foothill Elaenia.
>> >
>> >In the course of the past decade we have - thanks to John Moore who ha=
s
>> >also been doing a lot of recording and who headed the project - been a=
ble
>> >to publish a series of CD-sets on Ecuadorian bird sounds, an endeavor
>> which
>> >was only possible thanks to many years in the field by the various
>> >co-authors, many hours processing the recordings, and all of the above=
.
>> >
>> >Re. playback by birders, one has to use common sense. If all of a sudd=
en
>> >loads of ABA listers would flock down to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker a=
rea
>> >in Arkansas and start playing tapes this could have a severe impact. I=
f
>> >instead you're talking about much smaller numbers of birders in a coun=
try
>> >like Ecuador where - in spite of worrying degrees of deforestation -
>> there
>> >is still a lot of habitat to bird, people are usually so dispersed, do=
ing
>> >playback on different territorial birds, so that IMHO the impact on th=
e
>> >birds in negligeable. Yes there is the odd place where one
>> territorial bird
>> >repeatedly gets exposed to tape, and what seems to happen is that, rat=
her
>> >than deserting its territory, the bird just becomes oblivious to the
>> tape,
>> >probably having learnt that there's nothing to worry about.
>> >
>> >It is also worth stating that many birds here are year-round territori=
al,
>> >and that they regularly get exposed to young birds (or old ones
>> driven out
>> >of their territory by chainsaws) who are roaming around looking for a
>> >territory, and as soon as one of these starts singing the territory ow=
ner
>> >will come in to drive the intruder away. Many times I have watched
>> >territorial conflicts, and occasional and non-exaggerated playback is
>> >nothing more than yet another floating intruder having a go at
>> establishing
>> >a territory.
>> >
>> >We're running a conservation foundation here, the Mindo Cloudforest
>> >Foundation, and we have so far been able to establish two reserves in =
an
>> >increasingly deforested area thanks to the generous donations
>> received from
>> >some birders whom we've shown lots of birds, some of them with playbac=
k.
>> >The birds are still there in spite of the playback, but the habitat in
>> >which they live is now protected thanks to these birders.
>> >
>> >Cheers, Paul
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >"Microphones are not ears,
>> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
>> >A listening room is not nature."
>> >Klas Strandberg
>> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >"Microphones are not ears,
>> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
>> >A listening room is not nature."
>> >Klas Strandberg
>> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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