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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Beth Flint. Timecode In: 00:01:22. Timecode out: 00:10:05. Notes: Palmyra Atoll. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Ainsley Fullard-Leo. Timecode In: 00:11:30. Timecode out: 00:30:00. Notes: Palmyra Atoll. Subject 3: frigatebird sp. (Fregata sp.). Timecode In: 00:33:46. Timecode out: 00:36:17. Habitat: Lagoon, Island. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPRINGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS
Show: Palmyra
Log of DAT #: 5
Engineer: Chuck Thompson
Date: May 2000
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Beth Flint (BF)
Ainsley Fullard Leo (AFL)
Alex Chadwick (AC)
Palmyra. M/S Sennheiser mkh 40s 30s, and the sennheiser coat system. Part of the tour of bird wildlife lots of interviews.
1 :40-On Eastern Island.
2: 17-Beth Flint (BF)-Hi my name is Beth Flint , and I'm a wildlife biologist with the pacific remote islands national wildlife refuge complex .
2:27-AC-And you're based in Honolulu and what is your job actually? What do you do?
2:31-BF-Well I'm a wildlife biologist for the national wildlife refuge system(NWRS). The US fish and wildlife service manages public lands designated as wildlife refuges and a number of them are out in the tropical island pacific and I work on some of the smaller atolls and islands here between midway and the equator.
2:51-AC-What is your work? What is it you do?
2:53-BF-Well, Urn, I'm a technical advisor for refuge managers. I monitor populations and monitor the health of the ecosystems we're trying to take care of and that involves identifying plants and eradicating alien species that get started and counting birds and turtles and any species that happen to live on the refuges.
3:18-AC-Uh, Just describe Palmyra for me. Tell me what this place is like as a wildlife biologist
3 :24-BF -Palmyra is really exciting for me as a wildlife biologist because it's urn, one of
the few wet atolls I get to visit. It's a large, large seabird colony. An important
seabird colony in terms of numbers of certain species worldwide and it's quite
different from the habitats in the NWRS out here so it's always quite ...exciting to
come...come count birds here.
3:57-AC-Ifwe have other tropical islands in the NWRS why would the FWS be interested in Palmyra?
4:08-BF-Well, the FWS is always identifying Palmyra as a really important place for wildlife in the central tropical pacific because, not only is it an island that's had good protection historically and still has very healthy populations of seabirds and other marine organisms, but it's urn, but by virtue of its location it's extremely important in that it's close to the boundaries of the north equatorial current and the equatorial countercurrent and close to where the northeast trades and the southeast trades collide. So the ocean waters around Palmyra are extremely rich relative the rest of the tropics, and therefore good feeding grounds for for breeding seabirds and it has high rainfall so we have basically a tropical rainforest which favors certain species of seabirds that do not do so well on the drier islands that are already in the NWRS.
5:16-AC-What is it that you would like to see happen at Palmyra
5:20-BF-Ever since I first came here,
Additional species
- frigatebird sp. Fregata sp.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 25 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 24 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 25 Nov 2008 - Ben Brotman