Thanks for that, Paul. Your suggestion is very
welcome. Having visited the Amazon Basin (various
sites) 12 times in the past 20 years, my sense is
that these good spots are becoming fewer and
fewer with each passing day. Having recorded in
the Rio Napo before it was so badly compromised,
I wanted to get a sense of the biophony after the
event, and so, re-visited it.
Bernie
>At 06:34 31-10-05 -0800, you wrote:
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>>Ali=F1ahui is located on the Rio Napo, near Tena
>>and not far from the Jatun Sacha Biological
>>Station. It's now also called Butterfly Lodge,
>>and was established by an entomologist (Dr. Ed
>>Ross and his wife, Sandy) from the Cal. Academy
>>of Sciences originally as a research site,
>>converted now into an ecotourism project. I know
>>Ed because I was connected with the Cal. Academy
>>as a field resrearch associate under the late
>>Luis Baptista in the birds and mammals department.
>
>Bernie,
>
>This area is quite messed up, with a lot of hunting and forest
>fragmentation, and you picked the wrong spot indeed. You need to go to one
>of the lodges further east to get a better balance. Least affected are
>Kapawi and Tiputini. Also Napo Wildlife Centre is a great place.
>
>Cheers, Paul
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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