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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Jonathan Green. Timecode In: 00:07:10. Timecode out: 00:28:24. Notes: Flightless Cormorant. Subject 2: Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi). Timecode In: 00:10:20. Timecode out: 00:25:20. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Rob Dunbar, Jonathan Green. Timecode In: 00:29:55. Timecode out: 00:36:00. Notes: Fernandina Island description. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Lava bed. Timecode In: 00:36:07. Timecode out: 00:36:36. Subject 5: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Gentle ocean surf. Timecode In: 00:40:50. Timecode out: 00:43:41. Subject 6: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Walking on sand beach. Timecode In: 00:43:41. Timecode out: 00:45:00. Habitat: Marine Shoreline, Island. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH40 Cardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic through Sonosax Preamp into Sony TCD7. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS - GALAPAGOS LOGS NPR/NGS- RE - Galapagos Dat #5 page 1 00:00 - 02:00 Slate Ambi - at arrival point on - near injured seal - Espinosa **** 04:13 - 7:10 [at 05:00 FX - Seal exhale] + Ambi on trail 07:11 - 9:29 Jonathan Green: JG: Now, this is interesting, look at this. This is a nesting site of the flightless cormorants¿.. And they¿re not particularly choosey in the material they use for nesting. But I¿ve never seen them using pencil pined sea urchins like this¿.20 sea urchins to build up the nesting area, and by the looks of it, they¿ve already abandoned. At this time the courtship, one of the pair would usually be here on the nesting site, so if there¿s no one here, that would indicate started courtship, went into nesting and then gave up, not enough food around. Back in `82, ¿83, they reported cormorants actually using dead marine iguana as nesting material, the carcasses were so abundant, they just piled them up around them.. Here we¿ve got a separate different approach. AC: Dead iguana right there¿.. JG: Seems going same way as 82 and 83¿..just going through the motions, then giving up/ AC: And how many would be nesting here JG: Varies from year to year¿sometimes 3-4 nests right here¿.these are populations that travel a lot - some years many nests, other years none. [9:30] then wind AC: Come over to another part of land, don¿t see so many iguana¿ AC:[10:12] *** What¿s this coming up here? JG: That¿s a flightless cormorant coming up with nesting material. See where he or she goes¿..FX of cormorants¿..[condense all this into a scene with description by Alex. Note use FX of cormorants that follow]. JG: What we saw right now is the bringing of nesting material onto land is usually what a pair would do so for one bird to do it on its own ¿.would be interesting to see if this a male continuing to try to nest - female has abandoned ++ FX - Cormorants. ***FX: 11:46 - 12:09 Cormorants - [ plus Alex¿s notes at 12:09] AC: 12:09 ** This bird that¿s come waddling up out of the water and across the lava rock holding a leaf that it¿s deposited in a little nesting area. It¿s like a duck, only a little larger but it `s got that kind of shape and feathers. The bill is ..a little longer, and it¿s got a little hook at the end, and what¿s really different about this bird is its wings which are stubby little kinds of things¿.no good for flight, in fact, this bird doesn¿t fly anymore. [12:39] JG: There are some 20 or so species of cormorants in the world, and this is the only flightless cormorant. It¿s endemic to Galapagos, it¿s a unique species we have here. AC: **I¿m struck again by the fact that I don¿t anywhere else in the world you could go where a bird like that, a wild animal would just come straight up and seemingly not be very bothered by our standing 10 feet away from its nesting site. JG: Yeah¿.seem to be unaware of our presence. Also, realize it¿s flightless. That¿s an indicator that no land pr... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D7
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
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- Cataloged
- 9 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 9 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 9 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman