Hi folks
It worked for me, although it was a short wait for each picture to load.
Average time for my first attempt was 4.13 sec. I think it's a great game if
you can get it to work!
Mona
On 23/08/2013, at 12:21 PM, Jenny Stiles wrote:
>
> 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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