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    Equipment suggestion for recording owls for research

    Thanks for the suggestion, Dave!
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    Equipment suggestion for recording owls for research

    Thanks for the suggestion again, Jon. Call playback usually works very well for owls. It could be possible that individual you encountered was a floater (a non-territorial individual) or perhaps the call playback was done outside the border of the owl's territory. Then maybe the owl just came to...
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    Equipment suggestion for recording owls for research

    Thanks for the detailed suggestion, Jon. :) One thing I did not mention is that I don't need to record throughout the night, but just for half an hour when the dummy owl with playback is set up in the resident owl's territory. Would that change your suggestion? You are right that they might not...
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    Equipment suggestion for recording owls for research

    As part of my Ph.D., I am studying the responses of Tawny owls to dummies placed in their territories, along with playback of territorial calls. The physical responses of the owls will be recorded as video using a thermal camera (which I already have) placed 30 m away on a tripod, and the vocal...
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