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Re: bird call playback uses

Subject: Re: bird call playback uses
From: "Scott Varney" scottvarney1968
Date: Mon Jan 6, 2014 5:21 pm ((PST))
That is great news to hear!  We hear so many of the negatives in regards to=
 this topic...the glass is sometimes half full!  Thanks for that.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 5, 2014, at 10:12 PM, "Chris Harrison" <> wrote=
:
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> As Scott points out, recorded bird calls are used to try and discourage p=
est bird species.
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> In New Zealand, prerecorded sounds of seabird nests are being used to try=
 and get seabirds to come back to nesting areas from which they had been pr=
eviously extirpated by predators.  (The predators have been removed).  I kn=
ow they have been successful with a couple of species so far.   So in this =
case, the playing of the recordings is being used to change their behavior =
in a positive way for conservation.
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> Chris  Harrison
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