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They just jumped on the roof.
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Oh, that's a big bird.
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You know, it seems like we're
kind of like in a horror movie.
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We're in this little shack, and
then there's these big birds
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just jumping all around us.
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For the next several
hours, we will
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be in this blind attempting
to trap some condors.
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You ready?
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Recently, I had the privilege
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of working alongside wildlife
biologist, Molly Astell, where
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I assisted in gathering
the biometrics
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of several critically
endangered California condors.
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Molly has invited the
team back to the Bitter
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Creek National Wildlife Refuge
to help with another task.
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This time, the goal
is to trap birds
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that need to have their health
evaluated for the season.
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So how do you safely
trap a bird that
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has a home range
of over 100 miles
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and is capable of soaring
as high as 15,000 feet?
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The answer is quite simple.
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Ring the dinner
bell by serving up
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one of their favorite
dishes, a smelly cow carcass.
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We will be setting
up in a blind.
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This structure will allow
us to stay completely
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hidden as the hungry
condors are drawn
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in toward the tempting bait.
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The name of the game is
patience and silence.
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We want to create
as little noise
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as possible so that we don't
spook our dinner guests.
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You get
the wild condors there,
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and then the ones
that we're going
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to be releasing right there.
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Molly, what are you
doing right now?
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I'm trying to get the
IDs of all the birds here.
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OK.
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So then we know
who's in the area,
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and who we've seen lately,
and we can kind of keep track
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of what birds are
around, and what birds
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we haven't seen for a while.
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OK, thanks a lot.
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The team's goal
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is to trap birds
whose health has not
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yet been evaluated this season.
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Molly can quickly look at the
birds' numbered wing tags,
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reference her notes,
and then determine
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which birds she needs to trap.
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Look at this.
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Look at this.
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This is fantastic.
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It's a condor overload.
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That one's pruning.
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That's number 20.
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Some adults are
chasing each other.
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They just jumped on the roof.
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Oh, that's a big bird.
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You know, it seems like we're
kind of like in a horror movie.
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We're in this little shack, and
then there's these big birds
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just jumping all around us.
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For the next several
hours, we will
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be in this blind attempting
to trap some condors.
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You ready?
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Right, so I think we're about
ready to open up that door,
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and then we'll see
if our kids in there
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are going to walk out into
the wild for the first time.
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So I'm going to slowly
open up this door here.
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So
here's what's going to happen.
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When Molly opens up that
door, the hungry, wild condors
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on the outside of the enclosure
are going to be lured inside
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because of the cow carcass.
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This also allows the two condors
that were already inside,
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which were born and
raised in captivity,
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to exit the enclosure.
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945 just
walked out of the trap.
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It's taking
his first steps into the wild.
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That's quite amazing.
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And 870 maybe.
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The juvenile?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, right there.
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Right there?
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Oh, look at that.
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870 is out and at the pond.
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So the two birds that
we were going to release
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are out in the wild
for the first time.
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When you
see something like them,
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how do you feel?
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Oh, man,
it's such a great moment.
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When you see them take
their first flight,
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and they're kind of
like, whoa, whoa,
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like I can actually fly, and
it's-- it's amazing to watch.
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Yeah, you're
kind of like a proud mom.
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Yeah, a little bit.
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It's great to see
them out there.
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So Molly,
is there a hierarchy
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when it comes to feeding?
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Yeah, and you can kind of see
it as we're watching them here.
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You'll notice like 216, she's
one of the more dominant birds
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out here, and she has no problem
just chewing off any other bird
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that's getting in her way.
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But some of the younger ones,
they're a little skittish.
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Oh, we got a little
fight going on here.
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Little fight.
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What's the next step?
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The next step is basically,
we wait until the birds that we
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want are in the trap, and
the ones that we don't want
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are outside.
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Sometimes, that can
just take a while.
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So
essentially, we
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wait in this cozy cabin shack.
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Exactly.
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OK,
so in the meantime,
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might do some photography.
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This is one-way glass, so
they can't actually see us,
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but we can see them.
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So we could actually get the
lens right up to the glass
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and potentially
get some pictures.
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We got one coming in.
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That's a big boy.
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That's a big one.
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Wow.
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Check that out.
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You got that massive
wingspan, and check out
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those primary
feathers right there.
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So that's really
distinct on condors.
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Look at that, and those feet.
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Those feet kind of
just dangle down.
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Got some snacks for everyone.
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Here you go, buddy.
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One for you.
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You know, watching
those condors devour
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that carcass got me hungry.
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Yeah.
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So there you go.
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Thank you very much.
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Wow, they're just
digging into that carcass.
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There's actually
not that much blood.
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They're getting all the tendons
and stuff, ripping in there.
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Wow, look at all the guts.
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I think
what we're going
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to do is we're going
to drop the trap door
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and see if we can finesse
some of these birds
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that we definitely want to
trap up into the main playpen.
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What would
prompt them to fly into that?
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Well, they can
see that there's another carcass
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in the flight pen.
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OK.
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And there's
no competition for that one.
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It's-- it's looking pretty good.
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Let's see if this
guy will go up.
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I think so.
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I
think we got him.
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Yep.
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Yes.
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All right,
that one is officially
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inside of the flight pen.
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We
trapped our first bird.
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Now, of
course, when we mean trapped,
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we mean it's going
into the flight pen.
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The flight pen is a larger
enclosure where the birds are
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kept temporarily until the
biologist actually process them
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and then release them again.
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The condors have consumed all
the soft tissue of the carcass
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very fast, very efficient birds.
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Their whole design, their
whole-- whole head structure
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is designed to actually fit
into the crevice of a carcass
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and be able to get
in there and pick
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away all the choice morsels.
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We've been in this blind for
hours, and we're almost done.
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We just have one
final bird that needs
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to get into that main
flight pen, and it's no 839.
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But it's kind of
tricky, because we also
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have three other birds in
here that we do not want
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to get into that flight pen.
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It's a matter of Molly
being quick with that gate.
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The perch is clear.
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839 is on.
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All right, Molly, be ready,
because these two on the ground
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are restless.
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Yeah.
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This
is your chance, dude.
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Yeah, OK, 839 is in.
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Yes.
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Great job, Molly.
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We got it.
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Got him.
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Heck yeah.
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All right, so we got all the
target birds that we wanted
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to get into that fly pen, and
the rest of these, actually,
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we will be able to release
back into the wild.
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So that's fantastic.
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Yeah,
mission accomplished.
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Mission accomplished.
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OK, we've been in this dark
blind for several hours.
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Oh, it is bright out there.
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We are done.
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It was a successful day.
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OK, Molly, we were in that
blind for about four hours.
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How did we do?
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Yeah, we did great.
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So we got those eight
birds that we were trying
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to trap, which is fantastic.
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And then we saw our two
birds that we were releasing
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into the wild for
the first time,
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make their way
out into the world
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with the rest of the
free-flying population.
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Nice.
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Great day.
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Very successful day.
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Well, thank you for
having me on the team.
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Thank you.
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We had a wonderful time
helping out with the California
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Condor Recovery Program.
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What these biologists
are doing is critical.
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All the hard work
that you saw us doing,
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they're doing this
on a regular basis
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to save this endangered species.
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All right, all that hard
work deserves some lunch.
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You ready?
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Yeah, let's go.
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All right.
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The survival of the California
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condor depends on continued
monitoring and conservation
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efforts conducted by dedicated
people like Molly and her team.
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However, the protection
of the species
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is a collective endeavor
shared by all of us.
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One simple way to
directly help this species
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is by encouraging hunters to
use non-lead-based ammunition.
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This reduces the risk of condors
consuming lead fragments left
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behind in the spoils
of a hunt which
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causes lead poisoning and high
mortality rates in these birds.
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The actions don't
have to be big,
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but over time, small actions
can have the potential
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to create big results that
can safeguard our planet's
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amazing biodiversity.
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Can't get enough of
these fascinating birds?
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Then check out the live
cameras at explore.org to catch
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a glimpse of them in real time.
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I'm Coyote Petersen.
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Today, we're at the Arizona
Sonora Desert Museum,
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and I'm standing right outside
of the hummingbird aviary.
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Let's head inside
and see if we can
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get the cameras up close to some
of these speedy, little birds.
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The Arizona Sonora
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Desert Museum, located in
the heart of Tucson, Saguaro
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National Park, is world
renowned for its collection
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of amazing animals.
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Considered a living
museum, the conservation
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work they do helps to
protect and preserve a number
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of native, desert species.
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From Mexican wolves, to bighorn
m their species survival
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programs have helped sustain
and reintroduce populations
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of threatened
animals to the wild
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where they once had vanished.
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However, not all
of the animals that
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call the desert museum home are
as large as wolves and sheep.
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And today, we are
getting, or should I say,
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we'll be trying to get up
close with the smallest
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birds in the southwest.
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So excited.
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I absolutely love hummingbirds.
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All right, let's
head into the aviary.
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Got to move quick.
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We've got to go through
a set of double doors.
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In you go, go, go, go,
get that door closed,
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and into the aviary we go.
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COYOTE PETERSON
This
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is also where we met up with
Shawnee Peterson, an expert
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in the world of hummingbirds.
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She spends nearly every morning
walking the aviary to monitor
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this flourishing population.
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OK,
now here in the aviary,
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how many species do we have?
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We have four.
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OK.
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Costa's, Anna's,
Broad-Tailed, and Broad-Billed.
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Awesome, so
we have the chance of seeing
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all four of these today.
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I'm hopeful.
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There's one flying
right behind your head.
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Is it right behind me?
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It's right behind you.
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What kind is that?
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON:
A little female Anna's.
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Oh,
cool, so the females
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are a little bit duller in
coloration than the males.
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The males usually have a
brighter throat, right?
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Really, really
bright gorget area.
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That would be the throat area.
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Hummingbirds are tiny masters
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of the sky, and before
we began searching,
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Shawnee wanted to
give us a quick lesson
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so that we would
have an appreciation
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for their amazing abilities.
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OK, so
let's talk about wing speed.
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If there's one incredible
trait that the hummingbird has,
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it's the fact that its
wings can go so fast.
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Now, how many strokes can that
hummingbird do this a minute?
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Almost 4,800.
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Wow, 4,800
strokes in a minute.
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Can you imagine that, and I'm
sure if I sat here and did
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this, it would
take me half a day,
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and I'm not going to
lift off the ground,
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and these hummingbirds, I
mean, I'm watching them.
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Look at this.
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They're just flying back
and forth, hovering.
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And they can move forward,
backwards, up and down.
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That's crazy.
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON:
That's great, yeah.
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Now, your heart
rate must be going pretty quick
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if you're flying that fast.
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How fast are their heart rates?
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Over 1,200 beats per minute.
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This is one
impressive, little animal.
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That is for sure.
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All of that power packed into--
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I mean, these guys are tiny.
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They're like that.
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Yeah, about three grams.
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So that's about the
weight of a penny.
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Wow, so you're telling
me that a bird this size--
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I mean, he is tiny, but he
only weighs as much as a penny.
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON: Yeah.
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That is impressive.
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Walk quietly, keep alert,
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and with just a
little patience, you
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will soon begin to
see hummingbirds
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darting left and right.
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I certainly wasn't allowed to
capture any of these birds,
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so for me, this
experience was all
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about having a close encounter
of the hummingbird kind.
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON:
One thing
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I think that we did
that was really smart
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is we made this
aviary pretty low.
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So the birds do, they
nest very close to people,
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and people get to enjoy them
very close instead of the birds
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being up very high.
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And
the temperature in here
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is significantly lower than
it is outside of the aviary,
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and I notice you have a lot
of shade, kind of netting
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and the mesh top.
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Does that help to keep
the temperature down?
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON:
It does.
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It's really nice
in the summertime.
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I see
that there are spider webs
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all over the place in here.
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Now, is that something
that hummingbirds like?
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Are they eating spiders?
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No, but that is the glue
that keeps a nest together.
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Oh, really?
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON: And
when we opened this exhibit,
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our nests were sort
of falling apart,
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and we were like,
what are we missing?
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And it was because
we'd had to pretty
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much start from ground zero.
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We were missing spiders.
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So we brought in
labyrinth spiders,
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and they started
spinning their webs,
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and immediately during
breeding season,
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the females would come in
and start stealing all that
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and weave them into their nests.
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I can feel that,
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that that webbing is very strong
and, like you said, stretchy.
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So as the chicks are growing,
then the nest actually
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expands with the baby birds.
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Exactly.
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That is really, really cool.
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Symbiotic relationship
between a bird and a spider.
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Never heard of that one before.
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Shawnee, what I love so
much about this aviary
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is that it feels like we're
out there in the wild.
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Now, you do have the
enclosure over top,
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but you barely notice it,
and you can get so incredibly
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close to these hummingbirds.
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I know, it's a
terrific experience.
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Oh, jeez, look how close
this one is right here.
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON:
Absolutely.
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Look at that.
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Look at how comfortable he
is getting that close to us.
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Wow, is that normal for them
to just come this close?
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I mean, we've been standing
still for a minute.
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Well, they know
that they're getting
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their lunch from us so--
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So he might
think Coyote has my lunch.
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SHAWNEE RIPLOG-PETERSON: Maybe.
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Oh, there he goes.
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Wow, how cool was that?
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I mean, we were literally
inches from that hummingbird.
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Oh, that's truly an experience
I'm never going to forget.
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Shawnee, thank you so much
for having us out here today
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to the hummingbird aviary.
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Yes, oh my gosh, the next time
you guys are in the Southwest,
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make sure you come and visit the
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
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So many amazing animals
to get up close with.
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I'm Coyote Petersen.
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Be brave.
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Stay wild.
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We'll see you on
the next adventure.
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I'm Coyote Petersen, and this
is baby toucan feeding time.
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Watch this.
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The Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary
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has a very clear
mission when it comes
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to Costa Rica's wild animals
that are in need of help.
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Rescue, rehabilitate, and
ultimately, release them back
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into their natural environment.
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00:17:00,628 --> 00:17:03,065
But what about the animals who
cannot make a full recovery?
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Located in the coastal
town of Dominical,
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Alturas also calls
itself home to nearly 50
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permanent residents.
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These animals cannot
be released back
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into the wild
because of disability
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or severe over domestication.
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And while some of these
permanent residents
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are covered in fur--
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It's sloth off feeding time.
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COYOTE PETERSON
- many are
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actually of the feathered kind.
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So this morning, I
will be sitting down
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for breakfast with
one of their newest
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additions, a baby toucan.
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This is the real
Fruit Loops right here.
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00:17:39,667 --> 00:17:41,321
This is fresh cut fruit.
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What I'm about to do is
feed it to a baby toucan.
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It smells really good.
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This looks like something that
I would eat for breakfast,
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00:17:47,936 --> 00:17:49,720
so I have a feeling
that this toucan
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is absolutely going to love it.
427
00:17:52,245 --> 00:17:53,594
Oh, boy, here it comes.
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00:17:53,724 --> 00:17:57,641
Oh, look at that.
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That is a baby toucan.
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00:18:00,514 --> 00:18:02,820
I have never seen
one of these before.
431
00:18:02,951 --> 00:18:04,909
That is so amazing.
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00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,955
You look like a little dinosaur.
433
00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:09,349
Look at that curious head.
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00:18:09,479 --> 00:18:11,133
Look what I've got.
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00:18:11,264 --> 00:18:14,049
Now, if I was a mama toucan, I
would come in with some fruit
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just like this.
437
00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:18,488
There you go.
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00:18:18,619 --> 00:18:19,620
Oh, he's eating the spoon.
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00:18:19,750 --> 00:18:20,795
Look at that beak.
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Quite the chomper.
Here we go.
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Coming in.
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Coming in hot.
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There we go.
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And although it's a
juvenile, that beak
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could still give me a pretty
good chomp, so I want to keep
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my fingers away from there.
447
00:18:31,719 --> 00:18:33,024
That's why I'm using a spoon.
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00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:34,504
There you go.
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When fully grown,
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the toucan's bill can be
nearly seven inches in length
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and will continue to evolve
in coloration being a mix
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of red, orange, and green.
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Just is like a mama bird.
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Got to get that
way down in there.
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OK.
456
00:18:48,779 --> 00:18:50,520
So have you
ever fed a toucan before?
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I have
never fed a toucan before.
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There's a first
time for everything.
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Do you know that Fruit Loops
is actually my favorite cereal,
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and as a kid, I used
to love Toucan Sam.
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00:19:01,052 --> 00:19:03,751
So hanging out today
with this baby toucan,
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getting to feed it
real Fruit Loops,
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00:19:06,406 --> 00:19:07,276
is a pretty cool experience.
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Oh, give me back the spoon.
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He's trying to eat
the whole spoon.
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00:19:12,368 --> 00:19:14,283
Oh, we've got all kinds
of good stuff in here.
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00:19:14,414 --> 00:19:17,939
We've got cantaloupe and
pineapple and banana.
468
00:19:21,899 --> 00:19:22,857
There you go.
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You got some of it on your beak.
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Look at those eyes.
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Look at how big and
buggy his eyes are.
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And without the feathers
fully developed on the neck,
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you can see the curve
of that vertebrae.
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Look at the feet.
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Can you see that?
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You know what it looks like?
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Reminds me of a
baby pterodactyl.
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COYOTE PETERSON
These birds
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have what is known
as zygodactyl feet
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with toe sets facing
in opposite directions.
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This foot structure, with
two toes in the front
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and two toes in the
back, allows them
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to easily maneuver in the
lush rain-forest canopies.
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And a baby
toucan of this size obviously
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up in the trees,
it's very important
486
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that he uses these claws
to keep himself in the nest
487
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and on the tree branches.
488
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Now, this baby toucan
eats four times a day,
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and quite a bit of food.
490
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Oh, I know.
491
00:20:08,946 --> 00:20:09,817
I hear you.
492
00:20:09,947 --> 00:20:10,905
More, more, more, he says.
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00:20:11,035 --> 00:20:11,819
You're OK.
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00:20:11,949 --> 00:20:14,561
Here you go.
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It's always nice to have a
friend over for a breakfast
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conversation.
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00:20:18,608 --> 00:20:20,175
And right now, we're
talking about what
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it's like to be a baby toucan.
499
00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:24,005
It's a rough life if you
fall out of the nest.
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If a baby toucan falls
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from the nest,
it's almost certain
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to be picked off by a predator.
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However, in the case of
this lucky little bird,
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it was found by a human
who did the right thing
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and brought it to the sanctuary.
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Now,
hopefully, this baby toucan
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will be able to be
rehabilitated and eventually
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released back into the wild.
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So we don't want it to become
too acclimated to humans,
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but it is important that this
bird does eat several times
511
00:20:48,725 --> 00:20:51,685
a day to keep up
its nourishment.
512
00:20:51,815 --> 00:20:54,601
You are one sloppy
eater, you know that?
513
00:20:54,731 --> 00:20:55,906
He
is a sloppy eater.
514
00:20:56,037 --> 00:20:57,517
I
think you're getting
515
00:20:57,647 --> 00:20:59,170
more of this fruit on the
log and not in your mouth.
516
00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:03,740
Oh, look at his little tail.
517
00:21:03,871 --> 00:21:05,699
Look at that little tufter.
518
00:21:05,829 --> 00:21:06,743
Want some more?
519
00:21:09,703 --> 00:21:12,140
Yes, that's a good
breakfast, isn't it?
520
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:15,535
This right here is the
breakfast of champions.
521
00:21:15,665 --> 00:21:18,407
Fruit for the
Fruit Loops toucan.
522
00:21:18,538 --> 00:21:19,713
There you go.
523
00:21:19,843 --> 00:21:21,541
Oh, it's like feeding
a baby dinosaur.
524
00:21:28,896 --> 00:21:30,724
Because this toucan could not
525
00:21:30,854 --> 00:21:33,857
be returned to its nest, it
will be raised in captivity
526
00:21:33,988 --> 00:21:37,165
and will become a permanent
resident at Alturas.
527
00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:39,994
And whether you are
covered in fur or feathers,
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00:21:40,124 --> 00:21:42,997
each and every member of this
incredible family of animals
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00:21:43,127 --> 00:21:46,392
is living a happy
and loved life.
530
00:21:46,522 --> 00:21:48,568
How awesome
was that spending the morning
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00:21:48,698 --> 00:21:50,265
feeding a baby toucan.
532
00:21:50,396 --> 00:21:51,658
I'm Coyote Peterson.
533
00:21:51,788 --> 00:21:53,355
Be brave.
534
00:21:53,486 --> 00:21:56,097
Stay wild.
535
00:21:56,227 --> 00:21:57,359
Eat your breakfast.
536
00:21:57,490 --> 00:22:00,710
We'll see on the next adventure.
537
00:22:00,841 --> 00:22:02,625
The Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary
538
00:22:02,756 --> 00:22:04,801
is constantly welcoming
new volunteers
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00:22:04,932 --> 00:22:07,413
to help with the
rescue, rehabilitation,
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00:22:07,543 --> 00:22:10,938
and release of Costa
Rica's beautiful animals.
541
00:22:11,068 --> 00:22:13,419
For more information on how you
can become a part of the team,
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00:22:13,549 --> 00:22:15,029
visit their website,
alturaswildlifesanctuary.org.
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