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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Julia Parrish. Timecode In: 00:00:19. Timecode out: 02:05:41. Notes: Common Murre behavior and habitat. Subject 2: Common Murre (Uria aalge). Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 02:06:02. Notes: Time of Day: 1005. Behaviors: call. Subject 3: Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Timecode In: 01:35:47. Timecode out: 01:35:59. Notes: Time of Day: 1220. Habitat: Marine Shoreline, Island. Equipment Notes: Stereo=2: 1=L, 2=R; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS OLYMPIC COAST NMS - Tatoosh DAT #8 15 okay we're right on the edge of the colony right now so you can just see the shapes of the murres, and we're at a fork in the road so we're going to take the right trail and it goes up to the black fabric which forms a tunnel which ends in a blind, walk slowly they'll tell you when they're concerned. 57 the sounds you're hearing now are chick peeping noises and then there's a whole variety of adult noises .. (makes sound) noises like that when they get concerned they'll stop making those noises and a dull roar from the chest that means back off wait for a minute or two until they stop making that noise and start making loud noises again if you continue to walk forward when they're roaring we may scare them off the nest .... (moving forward through grasses) ..... (2:40) (long stretch with no voices as we move into blind) blind is like a bay window. 8:38 ok so, me: they're right here, we're in the middle, they're right against the glass, yeah they can't see us? (its a camera here's the lends ok) no. they can't? no they see them and we see them. so now you can start to, wow, i know, quite apart from getting a good idea of why they do well or do not, designing this sort of blind allows us to get close enough to figure out what's going on and as you can hear they are really loud birds. 9:34 all of them have eggs or chicks, colony 10:32 this is a herring coming in looks like. (sound) that's a fish greeting. thank you for ht fish? it's sort of a general neighborhood announcement that a fish has been brought home. 10:49 bare spot surrounded by salmon berry a thorny bush. large nesting area, 6 or 700 birds in this colony. map the location of all the birds and the progress of their eggs and chicks (come every day) 15:47 so all of them that are close to us right now are sitting on eggs? pretty much they have a posture like a fast back square and slopey on the backside and they're very patient .. 16:12 sounds .. they're very vocal birds ....sounds 16:30 i feel like we're sitting right in the middle of their nest and when you see them come waddling up the path, they're coming home and we're sitting right in the middle of their home. yep and they don't seem to mind and that's the amazing thing to me, when we first built blinds like this we did it last year and it was an experiment and they loved it they came right up to the blind, very gregarious bird, they see the blind and what do they see, other murres .. (mirror) 18:15 oh they're all bobbing their heads hear the difference in noise that they make? a low roaring.... (sound) what just happened? there was a gull alarm you can still hear the edge of the gull alarm now the gulls are saying its okay don't worry everything is back to normal it flew off in another direction and so the murres decided it's okay too. 18:50 look at who brings in fish, what kind of fish, to get an idea of whether parents have preferences, studying what makes them nest where, under what circumstances they would abandon their nest. looking at foraging. how much fish they need...how are they reacting to less fish (el nino) 29:46 so there are all sorts of things that we can learn about the birds and this work, the foraging work also allows us to begin to ask the question can we use the birds to monitor the marine environment more ... (Notes truncated)
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- 15 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 15 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 15 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman