I have read yesterday's comments about electronic calls (I get only the
digest, so have not read today's responses.)
I saw nothing said about using calls during nesting season.
I don't own a portable electronic call.
My own behavior has been to avoid even PISHING during nesting season.
Breeding
Hi Nari,
As John said, it used to be strictly limited to scientific research, but
I think over the last 50 years we've shifted from black-and-white to grayscale
on this question. The advent of Citizen Science has played a role, by
creating research projects that depend on the participation of
For my two cents: I have done some really extensive audio playback as
part of my golden-wing nest surveys and studies of nesting success,
which involved luring birds into nets for color-banding and for blood
samples to determine hybridization. I never felt that my playbacks
reduced nesting
I led an SFO trip up the lake on Saturday. I did not call birds until we
reached Martin's Tract. I used a tape to call in a Virginia Rail. A Sora
responded. A couple days before a Virginia Rail responded. There is also an
American Bittern calling from there and probably Marsh Wrens. (Both Gary
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From: Ann Mitchell annmitchel...@gmail.com
To: John Confer con...@ithaca.edu
Cc: geoklop...@gmail.com; Upstate NY Birding cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Has birding ethics changed?
I led an SFO
From the ABA code:
Limit the use of recordings and other methods of attracting birds, and never
use such methods in heavily birded areas, or for attracting any species that is
Threatened, Endangered, or of Special Concern, or is rare in your local area
So, the code implicitly recognizes these
Marie is right, as more birders also want to photograph birds it is
going to increase. I too am guilty of this behavior. I will not count a
bird on my life list unless I have a recognizable photo of it. It is
hard enough to find a bird when you can hear it, but in my case with
most of my high
My 2 cents worth,
And using playbacks is now used by bird photographers everywhere to entice in
birds, especially the small hard-to-see ones such as warblers. I am somewhat
hypocritical here, because I do use this technique myself on occasion, but what
has happened in bird photography is that
Fellow birders.
Of course, the earth was created for our pleasure and
everything in and on it is here to entertain us.
We are superior and able to devise clever things that affect these
creatures; if something enhances our enjoyment, what else matters?
It is of little concern to us that
