Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 05:26:13 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: Playing song recordings in the field MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/7/2003 12:13:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, JSPEICHER@NIAID.NIH.GOV writes: > My personal opinion is that this is only acceptable in rare cases, for > example in field studies necessary to document population dynamics. If > there isn't a clear benefit to the birds and since it may, in fact, be > harmful, i wouldn't do it. Well said! Until studies of the effects of using song recordings in the field are proven to be harmless, why use them? If you don't use recordings: - Golly gee, you might have to chase the desired bird around a whole bunch of times over a period of weeks, months or even years in order to see it. - Daily postings and trip lists might be a few species short. What a disaster that would be! - Amateur and professional leaders with big buck birders might all become disgruntled, unfulfilled and most certainly an even greater disaster - unheralded. Gail Frantz Old Hanover Rd Reisterstown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================