Re: Request for advice on recording equipment to take to a rain fore

["Marc Myers" primatemarc]

I'm getting to this thread late but so if I'm covering old territory I'm sorry, 
but most of the folks I know that do recordings in the rain forest use 
Sennheiser shotguns. They are tough. Most that I've worked with do not use 
blimps. Little wind most time in tropical forest when it is not raining so hard 
as to prevent you from doing anything anyway. Most hold the microphone in hand 
(but better with a pistol grip) and monitor with small headphones or even 
decent ear buds. In that way you don't look like the distaff part of a film 
crew and can still make quality recordings.