Yes, that was me, sorry about that, retrospective apologies : - )  At the time I actually thought it was a spam email from unknown source (I hadn’t looked carefully enough at who it was from) so replied in accordance. Whoops.

Interestingly, typically when people do (deliberately) send out large numbers of CCs in an email message it’s part of a scamming process known as “phishing” or sometimes “pishing”. Pishing (in bird talk) is also the word used for imitating bird calls (usually a scold or alarm call) by birders/ornithologists to attract birds. It’s a great technique to increase the effectiveness of bird diversity surveys and can be effective in attracting species that you might not otherwise see. I’ve personally found it useful in closed forested areas, such as mangrove and rainforest, and I saw my first Mangrove Robin and White-breasted Whistler this way.

Cheers,

Tim Dolby