> I've been looking everywhere on the internet for a tape that is
>specifically for calling owls, rails and other birds that respond to tapes.
>Anyone have any suggestions where

At their nature store in Wedgewood, Seattle Audubon sells good quality
recordings of these birds (you can also probably get them at most
bookstores)... Trouble is, they're on anthologies with hundreds of other
birds. What you need to do is to record 'loops' onto a blank tape...just
record the call a bunch of times, so you don't continually have to rewind
the tape. If you only record a couple of different birds on each tape, then
you will be able to find and use the loops easily.

By the way, there's a sensitivity and 'birding ethics' question here (which
jives nicely with the other thread going.) The rules are obvious, i.e.,
don't play tapes during nesting season, don't harass the bird longer than is
necessary, don't use tapes in heavily birded areas, etc....I'm sure there
are others.

Rick Romea
Seattle, WA
rromea at stioptronics.com

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