If they think your potential mate or potential rival for mating. Is it too much of a waste of their time and effort?
Are you going to put out? Because if not this is just leading people on.
It is not recommended using bird calls as it disturbs them: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/why-photographers-should-reconsider-using-playback-field
Aww, now I feel bad for whistling back
I mean, one thing is using recordings and another one is whistling. If you’re disrupting them then it’s just natural selection.
I’ve gotten a couple to get close enough to see.
I guess that’s evolution. Serves them right for trusting a human.
It’s generally frowned upon. Birds spend their lives collecting enough energy (food, water) to survive (find more food, defend territory, mate, etc). If a bird reacts to a fake call, it’s wasting energy that could’ve been used for something actually useful, which lowers the bird’s chance of survival.
you’re supposed to just watch the birds
I eat birds, which is probably less ethical than this
Aren’t you Christian? Ethics are whatever you say God says they are.
That’s fucking with nature and we as a species fuck with it so much it’s probably better to not do things like this.
