How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar?
By Birding-Aus, on August 22nd, 2013
Hi All, This is just as relevant here as it is in Africa, where this link came from (an email to AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com). Here is a fun little game of finding a Nightjar. It takes just a few minutes. It is designed to test our perception and study camouflage and see how good we are at finding a roosting Nightjar. So the results are compiled and compared according to observer age group. It gives you 20 photos of a Nightjar roosting on the ground and you need to click the mouse on it when you can see it. It gives a give up option for each. It first asks if you want to be a monkey or a mongoose. After each photo it goes to the next. At the end it gives a score of your average time (presumably out of the 20). I don’t know what happens with your score if you don’t find it or you click the mouse but not on the Nightjar. I don’t see if that was explained. My average score on my first time was 6.19 seconds, which is not a winning score but then again I think if you do it many times you would get better at it but then it is partly remembering, rather than finding it. Maybe the winning scores would be from those who have done it many times (which I suspect would defeat the purpose of the exercise). Hopefully the researchers have built something into their methods that take this issue into account. For those who don’t like Nightjars, maybe you can imagine it is a Night Parrot. Philip —–Original Message—–From: AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Betton Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2013 8:45 AM To: AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com Subject: [AfricanBirding] How difficult is it to find a roosting Nightjar? See how good you are at finding a Nightjar using this test: http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/where-is-that-nightjar/ My fastest average so far is 1.7 seconds, but I have had 5 goes at it! Regards Keith =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
I give up. Can’t even get past the pattern at the beginning. I waited 10-15 minutes and it just sat there! Gary ________________________________ From: Tom Tarrant < aviceda@gmail.com > Cc: Birding-aus < birding-aus@vicnet.net.au>; Gary Davidson < gsd37@yahoo.ca>; Jenny Stiles < jstiles@optusnet.com.au> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:40:58 PM Incredibly slow on ADSL, I gave after 5 minutes….. On 23/08/2013 12:34 PM, “Peter Shute” < pshute@nuw.org.au> wrote: Did anyone else find it very slow to load each photo? I think it was well over a minute, so I gave up. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Incredibly slow on ADSL, I gave after 5 minutes….. On 23/08/2013 12:34 PM, “Peter Shute” < pshute@nuw.org.au> wrote: =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Did anyone else find it very slow to load each photo? I think it was well over a minute, so I gave up. Peter Shute =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Hi Gary, If you wait a little while it ask you a few questions [age, if you have played before & if you want to view as a Mongoose or a Monkey] & then load the pictures 1 at a time. I played for an average score of 4.35 seconds on my first try. From Jenny Stiles —–Original Message—– Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:58 AM Am I missing something here?! Every time I go to this link, I get a stratic screen with designs on it. Looks kind of like a camoflague pattern, but certainly no photographs! Any ideas?? Gary ________________________________ < pshute@nuw.org.au>; ‘Philip Veerman’ < pveerman@pcug.org.au> Cc: ‘Canberra Birds’ < canberrabirds@canberrabirds.org.au>; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:43:51 PM Oops, missed a few birthdays there. I should have said 79. —–Original Message—– Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 8:54 AM Cc: ‘Canberra Birds’; ‘birding-aus@vicnet.net.au‘ Averaged 7.08secs. Not bad for an oldie like me (70). Tony —–Original Message—– [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Shute Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 6:05 AM Cc: Canberra Birds; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn’t made the top 10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I got bored and came back to it later, I think there’s something wrong with its timer. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, “Philip Veerman” < pveerman@pcug.org.au> wrote: something into their methods that take this issue into account. difficult =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Am I missing something here?! Every time I go to this link, I get a stratic screen with designs on it. Looks kind of like a camoflague pattern, but certainly no photographs! Any ideas?? Gary ________________________________ From: Tony Russell < pratincole08@gmail.com> Cc: ‘Canberra Birds’ < canberrabirds@canberrabirds.org.au>; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:43:51 PM Oops, missed a few birthdays there. I should have said 79. —–Original Message—– Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 8:54 AM Cc: ‘Canberra Birds’; ‘birding-aus@vicnet.net.au‘ Averaged 7.08secs. Not bad for an oldie like me (70). Tony —–Original Message—– [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Shute Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 6:05 AM Cc: Canberra Birds; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn’t made the top 10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I got bored and came back to it later, I think there’s something wrong with its timer. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, “Philip Veerman” < pveerman@pcug.org.au> wrote: something into their methods that take this issue into account. difficult =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Oops, missed a few birthdays there. I should have said 79. —–Original Message—– Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 8:54 AM Cc: ‘Canberra Birds’; ‘birding-aus@vicnet.net.au‘ Averaged 7.08secs. Not bad for an oldie like me (70). Tony —–Original Message—– [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Shute Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 6:05 AM Cc: Canberra Birds; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn’t made the top 10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I got bored and came back to it later, I think there’s something wrong with its timer. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, “Philip Veerman” < pveerman@pcug.org.au> wrote: something into their methods that take this issue into account. difficult =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Averaged 7.08secs. Not bad for an oldie like me (70). Tony —–Original Message—– [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Shute Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 6:05 AM Cc: Canberra Birds; birding-aus@vicnet.net.au It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn’t made the top 10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I got bored and came back to it later, I think there’s something wrong with its timer. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, “Philip Veerman” < pveerman@pcug.org.au> wrote: something into their methods that take this issue into account. difficult =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
It said my average time was 0 seconds, but that I still hadn’t made the top 10. Apart from the fact that it took so long to load the next photo that I got bored and came back to it later, I think there’s something wrong with its timer. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad On 22/08/2013, at 2:36 PM, “Philip Veerman” < pveerman@pcug.org.au> wrote: =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================