Thursday, December 3, 2009

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FUNNEL AND CAME OUT WOOLAMAI ... MILES BY DAWN IN CAP WOOLAMAI

In an effort worth noting .. almost directly from the plane and still not slept in several days, the expedition team recently arrived and those that took more days here, we went to one of our goals of filming: the entrance of the thin-billed terns in the colony. We-armed in the evening in one of the beaches on the island, famous among surfers for its waves and slowly chatting on the sand, we approached the colony. The thin-billed shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris ) is a relatively abundant in the southern seas and remarkable for its ability to migration. It is now at the beginning of the austral summer when it year after year on these shores to breed from Alaska!. There he spent the winter (summer in the Northern Hemisphere) and where in a few months back, after crossing over from north to south the Pacific Ocean. The thin-billed shearwater be one of the players deserved this second expedition to Australia. After climbing a long dune meadow covered with succulents and at the end of the beach, we began our wait expectantly. We knew that this colony is probably the largest in the world and we had talked about thousands of couples. As the sun, the light was there was some nervousness among us .. and the calm sea and immense from our vantage point, not letting go of what we reserved. Of course, the ground around us was a sieve, pierced everywhere for tickets to huras, three and four per square meter, as a huge warren. Slowly he began to draw some points on the binoculars focused on the blue horizon. Increased desided points in minutes. The movement of birds into more visible and more intense but still several hundred meters as shearwaters were reluctant to enter . The light was lost.
was almost overnight with these last glimpses of the sunset when we started to see the sky above our literally covering heads elegant birds and fast flight. Surprisingly quiet (compared with the species we are most familiar), the shearwaters were coming more and more as each sought his own nest among the growing din. Within each nest, the couple waited impatiently hungry and over in the incubation of freshly laid eggs. The biologists looked at disbelief at the spectacle, unable to digest both bug, sunset, sea, air, cold now .. all in unison. Meanwhile, Charlie TV team was busy on one side, looking for the best shots. The rest of the team followed him, moving with them tripod, camera and lights. Now if shearwaters jumped on the floor, debated, and brayed from time to time, wherever you looked. And for heaven, kept coming and coming. Those who had no more to do we sat staring at the sky and enjoying the function. The animals kept coming for more than an hour. And then .. get the moon .. that not to be outdone in this deployment, was full! Who could wait no longer. Since the batteries, the camera fuming .. content returned to the car .. Che .. spectacular! Impressed by the number .. and thinking about our own shearwaters, that one day soon they were so numerous and are now almost extinct because the pressure they are subjected. Not that they are less adapted, have had worse luck.



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