This full-page advert is to be found in the current issue of Nature's Home.... It looks innocent enough, but let's look closely at that bottom left-hand corner ... "DIGITAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION ?" Are they telling us that the contraption will ID birds for you ? Well, it certainly looks like it does. Here's what Swarovski's site has to say about it .. THINK SMART The dG is the first long-range optical device to allow you to identify and document your sightings and share them with other people. THE FUTURE OF ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION From 1,650.00 GBP STAY CURIOUS SWARObright SWAROdur SWAROtop dG 8x25 The full potential of the dG is unlocked when you link it to your smartphone. You need the SWAROVSKI OPTIK dG app to connect your dG to mobile devices. It also allows you to connect to apps like Merlin Bird ID and dG Mammals, which help you to identify and share your sightings. This app is available for all current smartphones from the App Store and Google Play. Well ... a long time ago I made my predictions about " The Death of Birding" .... there were lots of other "threats to birding" in what I wrote, but here's the relevant bit .. But there is a much more imminent danger to birding .... any day now, some dickhead will put a new sort of binoculars on the market ...it will have, tucked away inside its gubbins, bird-recognition software which will ID any bird within seconds and name it onscreen. And a range of telescopes that do the same. ¡ Ouch ! Oh, we'll all say we're not getting one of them, but you know what ... soon there just won't be the old sort. But "we", we happy band of real birders, will hold on to our old bins and scope and keep on using them. Maybe we'll have to do it surreptitiously as they will become valuable collectors items and be worth several Banksies ... that's the new currency that's coming in soon. It's a sort of Craptocurrency that will sweep the world. But we can't hold out for ever. It will be The Death Of Birding. But on the plus side, we can revert to type...wandering round the, er. countryside ( the what ?) enjoying ( what?) watching and hearing the birds. ( ?) ( the what ?) How very odd. But it might catch on. Here's the link to the whole thing... 509-the-death-of-birding-2.html ... and here's the music .... absolutely nothing to do with any of that ... Parce qu'on est tous seulement des hommes
On pense que la vie est trop conne Parce qu'on ne sait plus la regarder On ne sait plus se regarder On pense que la vie ne sera bonne Que si l'on passe à la télé c'est pas si dur à réaliser Parce qu'on tous des stars Parce qu'on est tous des stars Sans télé sans miroir Parce qu'on va tout casser Parce qu'on est tous des stars Un jour où l'autre On abandonne Le simple fait d'être des hommes Toujours chercher à chercher ailleurs Parce qu'on est tous des stars Sans télé sans miroir Parce qu'on est tous des stars parce qu'on va tout casser C'est bien le mieux que l'on puisse faire Etre des hommes de tout son coeur juste essayer, juste essayer parce qu'on est tous des stars
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