Hi Chris and all,
>From personal communications I understand that my comments sounded harsher or
>more broadly critical than they were intended. I certainly didn't mean to be
>dismissive of the study of nocturnal flight calls! But the recent ID threads
>raise some issues that deserve thought.
>From my perspective, as a confirmed believer in direct observation, I don't
>see the value in this kind of haphazard, ex post facto deliberation. If one is
>using an automated process to detect birds, one is sacrificing direct
>observation and all of the contextual data surrounding the actual
