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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Quiet beach ambi, Wind. Timecode In: 00:53:23. Timecode out: 00:55:01. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Loud beach ambi, Wind, Waves. Timecode In: 00:59:45. Timecode out: 01:03:55. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Paul Howey, Bill Seegar, Mike Yates. Timecode In: 01:35:26. Timecode out: 01:59:00. Notes: Microwave telemetry; Transmitters for birds. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Transmitter sound. Timecode In: 01:59:20. Timecode out: 01:59:22. Subject 5: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Transmitter sound. Timecode In: 02:01:36. Timecode out: 02:01:38. Habitat: Marine Shoreline, Beach. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS FALCONS DAT 6 BS = Bill, Seegar AC = Alex Chadwick 4:31 BS -You want to catch that bird? Let's go! It is really rockin' and rollin'! Alex you want to get in? [AC -here I come!] Go for it! Jimmy let's go! It's rolling crazy over here [**good ambi getting into car, doors slamming] ...right there (referring to a bird sighting) it's over on the dike! where? [ambi -car stops, get out of car] do you see it? 7:39 BS -This falcon is on a mission. this thing is climbing hard into the wind... [the following is very faint:] from there it is going to determine the velocity and it's about 1500 feet now" it is not migrating it is doing something else because it is going hard north in this stiff wind. this is typical of hunting it is way up, it is looking for oncoming birds now. it is looking for a flock of something below it -as it has to stroke. yeah it is , climbing. it is going up almost it is probably to 1500 feet now. it is up there. now it is starting to swing east. it is starting to power run now. it is starting to go. it is folding up. it is covering ground. it is hitting terminal velocity right now. that bird is probably hitting 110 now. it just threw up a little bit. it is hawking birds in the air right now. [AC¬: oops -wait a second. there it is] it's right out in front of us. it has not missed a stroke. i mean this is -just the sheer power of the peregrine being displayed now. it is just climbing into this wind.....right now she is just heading hard into the wind. waiting for something to get under her -yeah she is set! she is set! she set her wings now. there is a she is setting now. she is slowing down her wing beat and she is looking around. you might not be able to follow her. i think she is going out of sight now. [louder:] well, there is a bird that has climbed up to about 1500 and it is going north... this is a bird that just came down into the north wash flats, and just dinked around and then just -i mean this thing is way up and going straight into the wind, and you know what that means. she is just waiting for something. she is getting ready to drop the hammer. but she is going out of sight on me ...sid goodrow (?) said that on the next red radar he has seen birds moving in the gulf region in flocks and he can and he can follow the flocks, and he will see a single bird stationary in the movement and the birds are moving into it, and all of the sudden this bird will disappear and that will be a falcon doing this: flying into the wind while the migratory birds are coming at her at then when she gets into a flock the birds go to earth and she just whew! down at 120 130 miles an hour, terminal velocity and catches her dinner and that is what that bird is doing. it is just very typical..15:19 well, we will go down to the beach and see if birds are moving this way and we will just head north... 16:29 that bird will probably -well, we could all put in our bet on what country that bird will go to...where would the falcon go? .. maybe it will go to Buenos Aires? ..there are some real benefits to these peregrines. they go to nice places. they are real uptown birds. the first falcon we followed went just everywhe... (Notes truncated)
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- Cataloged
- 6 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 6 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 6 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman