Effects of call playback on birds

["Chris Sanderson" <>]

Thanks for this post Andrew,

The summary of the NEOORN discussion was pretty much as I expected - a little science, plus a lot of discussion of ethics.  I agree wholeheartedly with the conclusions, as I suspect would most of the people who have had this discussion before on birding-aus.  Last time Carol Proberts described her method for using playback, which I found to be a pretty decent and reasonable approach for a professional guide to take.  Search the birding-aus archives if you are interested.  The point about rare birds being over-taxed has also been made before - there are Rufous Scrub-bird individuals in QLD that evidently no longer respond to tape at all due to over-exposure.

Regards,
Chris

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Andrew Taylor <> wrote:

There are many publications involving playback but almost all are using
it as a tool to gain insight into bird ecology or behaviour.  Some of
this research indicates possible impacts from birders using playback
but at least what I've seen doesn't help much in judging the scale of
the impact.  Google did turn up this discussion involving some
knowledgable people:
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~smithsm/Impact%20of%20Playback%20on%20Birds.pdf

Andrew

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