Oh - she understood all right - but it was a question of "ticked that" and
move on......
Guess it is hard to answer your question without having been there. Let's
face it - most birding activities disturb birds to a certain extent (as do
an awful lot of non-birding activities - at least we are not likely to chop
down the forest, shoot the birds etc etc). I guess a bird is less likely to
feed or go to a waterhole if it sees there is potential danger there and if
hunger/thirst forces it to do so then it is likely to be more stressed as a
result. But how this can be measured and what a "safe distance" is would I
guess not be easy to ascertain.
I'm convinced that most birding activities do little long term harm and
since many people then translate their love of birds into trying to do
something positive (whether tree planting, lobbying governments, surveying
bird numbers etc) then I would argue that birding as a whole is beneficial
to birds and the environment.
2008/5/14 Peter Shute <>:
> Perhaps she simply didn't understand the significance of what she was
> seeing? A bit shocking, buut it couldn't be considered to be
> particularly damaging behaviour - not like tramping through OBP habitat
> without regard for the birds that might be frightened off - the main
> damage would be the petrol she used just to get a meaningless tick.
>
> I'm interested to know if people consider that parking close to this
> waterhole near Cunnamulla to see the Flock Bronzewings would be
> detrimental to the birds or not.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> wrote on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 5:49 PM:
>
> >But as you say Keith - some
> > birders will do anything - they might as well be collecting
> > train numbers! I am a Birding Pal (www.birdingpal.org) and
> > take many people from around the world to the Western
> > Treatment Plant at Werribee
> > - 99% are amazed at the place but I always recall the
> > American lady who saw an Orange-bellied Parrot there, ticked
> > it off her list and immediately wanted to move to the next bird!
>
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