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Re:eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database by waterside81 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:17PM (#24991540)
The world of bird sighting is interesting. I have a friend who runs a cruise expedition company in New Zealand. They run trips in the south seas (Antarctica) as well as the North (Russia, Japan) but they have to reposition their ships between seasons. Those repositioning trips are 3-4 weeks at sea with little-to-no land in sight. So what they did to make money was to sell heavily discounted seats to bird watchers because there are some species of birds who are only at sea during this time and this is the only way to see them. Pretty fascinating way to make up some revenue during an otherwise dead period.
Re:eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database by mongol on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:21PM (#24991580)
The night sky must be great too! Too watch the stars. Too bad it will move with the waves
Re:eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database by johnjboren on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:36PM (#24991712)
When you get your sea legs, or a scopolamine patch the stars stop spinning.

For cameras or telescopes, there has to be some kind of stabilization bases out there.

Re:eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database by ngcc_hk on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:25AM (#24998471)
Any info of your friend. Quite interested.
Re:eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database by waterside81 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:04PM (#25004474)