Did anyone else find it very slow to load each photo? I think it was well over
a minute, so I gave up.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of
> Jenny Stiles
> Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 12:21 PM
> To: Gary Davidson; birding-aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How difficult is it to find a
> roosting Nightjar?
>
>
> 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tony Russell <>
> To: 'Tony Russell' <>; 'Peter Shute'
> <>; 'Philip Veerman' <>
> Cc: 'Canberra Birds' <>;
>
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:43:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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: RE: [Birding-Aus] 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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