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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Jim Dayton. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:28:30. Notes: Peregrine Falcon in Argentina. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Rain, Wind. Timecode In: 00:47:42. Timecode out: 00:59:20. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Linda S. Schueck. Timecode In: 00:59:20. Timecode out: 01:10:54. Notes: Location data analysis; Pelican movement. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Bill Seegar. Timecode In: 01:37:22. Timecode out: 02:06:35. Notes: Peregrine Falcon. Equipment Notes: Stereo=2: 1=L, 2=R; Split track; Stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS FALCONS LOG OF DAT 4 JD = Jim Dayton LS = Linda Schueck AC = Alex Chadwick ...go find 5734. We had locations of birds locations stabilized, meaning she stopped on Dec. 15 at that area we watched for a while in that area to see if she was going to continue to move because this particular bird -Dec. 15 is pretty late for a bird to arrive on the wintering grounds, and so we watched for a while to see if she was going to stay there. and also the fact that dislocation was highly unusual -no one would have thought that a falcon would have gone to this location. 00:38,AC -What is unusual about this location. That the valley floor of the 'Salar de Antofalla' is about 12,000 feet above sea level. You have to 90 over several 15,000 foot passes to get in there, and it is in the middle of the Alta Plano, which is the high plane -you go up to the Andes up the wall of the Andes, and then it is a very broad mtn. range that's -i wouldn't say it is flat at all, but relatively speaking you don't get a whole lot of -you could travel at the ,at about the same altitude for a while -north/south. There are 1'7,000 foot peaks and in fact when we got into the 'Salar de Antofalla' and in fact found the vayga (?) where this bird is located right across the valley floor was a 17,00 foot mtn. it is a volcanic peak with a side blown out, and all of the ash and pumice had come down in an alluvial fan type pattern out into the salar, and in fact we camped on that fan. and it was just perfectly smooth. the wind just scours everything. it is a very harsh environment. it is freezing at sun up, and 95 degrees and'40 mile an hour wind at noon. 1:58 so, quite a typical i expect of high altitude desert. 2:06 AC -so tell me, how did you find this bird? how did you know where to go? 2:12 We had a -essentially we had a latitude longitude, I had a GPS receiver. We had a operational navigational chart which had some roads on it. no one in Salta which is the nearest town where there would be English speakers and people with education and no one we could find was familiar with the area. so it was very difficult to rent a vehicle. everything was ... it's all a long story, but eventually we rented a vehicle, and we were able to drive up into the area with our one to a million map. it is like having a map east of the Mississippi with a few lines on it. and the first time that we went up we essentially circled the salar. we knew where we were using the GPS, using the GPS we knew we were on the right latitude and we knew that the map showed a little red line going in there, but there was no road. And so we went all around the east side of the salar, up and down, we were 200 miles from fuel and so we used more fuel -we got out past the point of no return and we had to barter -we went into a very small mining village and a campasino -a local happened to walking down the street and we talked him into siphoning some fuel out of some drums that were in an adobe building and into our tank, which was enough to get us back. that was very interesting. we also got stuck. we tried -in somewhat of a desperate attempt to get in, we went down a track that showed itself as a road on the map, but actually was just a two wheel track of ash and pumice and we got about 200 yards into it and... (Notes truncated)
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- 5 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 2 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 5 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman