Hi Gary,
If you wait a little while it ask you a few questions [age, if you have
played before & if you want to view as a Mongoose or a Monkey] & then load
the pictures 1 at a time. I played for an average score of 4.35 seconds on
my first try.
From Jenny Stiles
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Davidson
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:58 AM
To: birding-aus
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
Am I missing something here?! Every time I go to this link, I get a stratic
screen with designs on it. Looks kind of like a camoflague pattern, but
certainly no photographs!
Any ideas??
Gary
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From: Tony Russell <>
To: 'Tony Russell' <>; 'Peter Shute'
<>; 'Philip Veerman' <>
Cc: 'Canberra Birds' <>;
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:43:51 PM
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
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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