Oops, missed a few birthdays there. I should have said 79.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Russell
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 8:54 AM
To: 'Peter Shute'; 'Philip Veerman'
Cc: 'Canberra Birds';
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
Averaged 7.08secs. Not bad for an oldie like me (70).
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 6:05 AM
To: Philip Veerman
Cc: Canberra Birds;
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn't made the top
10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I
got bored and came back to it later, I think there's something wrong with
its timer.
Peter Shute
Sent from my iPad
On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is just as relevant here as it is in Africa, where this link came
> from (an email to Here is a fun
> little game of finding a Nightjar. It takes just a few minutes. It is
> designed to test our perception and study camouflage and see how good
> we are at finding a roosting Nightjar. So the results are compiled and
> compared according to observer age group. It gives you 20 photos of a
> Nightjar roosting on the ground and you need to click the mouse on it
> when you can see it. It gives a give up option for each. It first asks
> if you want to be a monkey or a mongoose. After each photo it goes to
> the next. At the end it gives a score of your average time (presumably
> out of the 20). I don't know what happens with your score if you don't
> find it or you click the mouse but not on the Nightjar. I don't see if
> that was explained. My average score on my first time was 6.19
> seconds, which is not a winning score but then again I think if you do
> it many times you would get better at it but then it is partly
> remembering, rather than finding it. Maybe the winning scores would be
> from those who have done it many times (which I suspect would defeat
> the purpose of the exercise). Hopefully the researchers have built
something into their methods that take this issue into account.
>
> For those who don't like Nightjars, maybe you can imagine it is a
> Night Parrot.
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----From:
> On Behalf Of Keith Betton
> Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2013 8:45 AM To:
> Subject: [AfricanBirding] How
difficult
> is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
>
>
>
> See how good you are at finding a Nightjar using this test:
>
> http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/where-is-that-nightjar/
>
> My fastest average so far is 1.7 seconds, but I have had 5 goes at it!
>
> Regards
>
> Keith
>
>
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