I give up. Can't even get past the pattern at the beginning. I waited 10-15
minutes and it just sat there!
Gary
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From: Tom Tarrant <>
To: pshute <>
Cc: Birding-aus <>; Gary Davidson <>;
Jenny Stiles <>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:40:58 PM
Subject: How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
Incredibly slow on ADSL, I gave after 5 minutes.....
On 23/08/2013 12:34 PM, "Peter Shute" <> wrote:
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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