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.
