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[deapesh misra <deapesh@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

When I was new to birding here(I guess I still am), I
was the most surprised by the act of 'phishing' the
birds and then next in the list of surprises came the
act of 'playing cassettes' to bring a confused bird
out of its hiding place with the sole reason of
ticking off another bird name in the list.

Although I had birded a lot in my home country, I was
new to these tactics used to get the birds out of the
hiding places.

Now that it is mentioned:

--- Pmkane1953@xxxxxxx wrote:

>     Also, setting aside the obvious ethical
> questions,  which sadly, in a 
> digital world, more and more birders seem willing to
>  do; so far as I know, it is 
> illegal, as in against the law, to play tapes  to
> attract wildlife at both 
> Prince William Forest, a unit of the  National Park
> Service, and the Quantico 
> Marine Corps Base, without having first  met certain
> criteria, including 
> qualifying for a current research  permit.
>  
>     So running around with an IPod or playing  tapes
> on Breckenridge Road, in 
> or out of the breeding bird season, under the  very
> poorly thought out, 
> "well, how else am I gonna see the birds," principle
> of  birding, is not likely to 
> cash the check when you find yourself playing 
> twenty questions with any of 
> the jurisdictions that regularly patrol 
> Breckenridge Road. 

I would really like to know why and how these 2
practices which seem so unethical to me, propagated
here and became a common thing of practice?

I am sure there must be a list of ethical dos and
donts for birders somewhere. Or is that, I am wrong to
assume that these practices are unethical?

a bit confused from a long time,
Deapesh.
(Fairfax)


                
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