I wonder how birders who use call would feel, if someone turned up in their
lounge room , claiming ownership of the property?
Carl Clifford
> On 28 Jan 2015, at 1:33 pm, Ronda Green <> wrote:
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> When I first purchased tapes of nocturnal bird calls many years ago I decided
> to see if any owls responded on our property, and played the calls of the
> powerful owl. Our barn owls had been calling, but immediately stopped, and
> we didn't hear them again for about 10 days. I had started to think we'd
> scared them off permanently, and wondered what else moved out of the
> district. It really put me off using calls for anything other than
> identification purposes, and later of course I've heard many examples of
> birds using excessive amounts of energy trying to attack intruders etc. I've
> since been advised to use powerful owl calls to elicit mobbing responses from
> yellow-bellied gliders (I'm coordinating a survey of gliders in the Scenic
> Rim) but am very reluctant to do so. International tourists sometimes ask me
> to call birds in with recordings because they have been with other guides who
> have habitually done so (usually outside of Australia), but I explain why I
> don't use them this way.
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> Ronda
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>> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:48:37 +1000
>> From: "Alan Gillanders" <>
>> To: "Terry Witt" <>,
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>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Mobbing behavior
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>> I am surprised that this email has not caused a mobbing behaviour from
>> birders. It go my hackles up. We all interfere with the birds to some extent
>> but this?
>> Alan
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Terry Witt
>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 06:48 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Mobbing behavior
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>> I will be spending a month in S Australia Nov/Dec this year. In the US,
>> tape of E Screech-Owl can be very effective in attracting a variety of small
>> birds (at least in the East). Is there a similar species in S Oz that
>> causes mobbing behavior??
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Terry Witt
>> Murfreesboro Tn, USA
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