Скачать или смотреть Fibreglass nests built for penguins

(15 Oct 2006)
1.Wide shot fibreglass nests on island
2.Tight shot penguins in nest
3.Wide shot Lauren Blamey of Cape Nature Conservation walking on island
4.Mid shot penguin in glass fibre nest
5.Wide shot row of nests
6.Wide shot moves close in of penguins in nest
7.Wide tracking shot of Lauren and worker checking nests on island
8.Tight shot worker taking notes
9.SOUNDBITE : (English) Lauren Blamey, Cape Nature Conservation
" You can see the ground is very rocky, and there's very little habitat for the birds to breed in, there's no trees, there's no shrubs, so the penguins are forced to breed on the surface, by doing so it exposes them to heat stress. What happens is they need to leave their nests into the sea to cool down and that exposes their eggs or their chicks to predation from Kelp Gulls "
10.Wide shot penguins on island
11.Tight shot penguin soaking up sun
12.Tight shot group of penguins
13.Mid shot group of penguins
14.Tight shot penguin in nest
15.Tight shot penguin laying down
16.Mid shot Lauren and worker checking on nests
17.Tight shot penguins in nest
18.Tight shot back of nest
19.Tight shot penguins swimming in sea
20.Tight shot group of penguins standing near water
21.Tight shot Kelp Gull stalking penguins
22.Mid shot penguins near water
23.Wide shot workers making moulds for nests at Gansbaai office
24.Several of workers making moulds
25.SOUNDBITE : (English) Wilfred Chivell, Director of Dyer Island Cruises
" I saw that the penguins were sitting out in the open, then I started to read about it and I saw that African penguins are supposed to sit underground and not on the ground level and I immediately noticed that the Kelp Gulls was having a bad affect on the penguins. As well as the sun, so asked if there was any possibility of putting nests on the island and in 2000 we did one experiment and the penguins took to it straight away ".
26.Mid shot worker checking finished nest
27.Wide shot workers loading van with nests.
28.Wide shot nests being taken of boat on island
29.Several on island of worker installing nest.
30.Mid shot Dyer Island sign
31.Wide shot workers leaving for Dyer Island
32.Wide shot approach to Dyer Island with seals alongside
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The hot sun, Kelp Gulls and Pelicans are all the natural enemies of native African penguins on Dyer Island near Cape Town.
Now a unique project - thought to be the world's first - is underway to help the penguin colony breed without hindrance.
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These penguins have new homes.
The fibreglass nests were the brain child of local wildlife enthusiast, Wilfred Chivell.
He noticed that the native African penguins on Dyer island, were exposed to the heat of the sun and were easy prey for kelp gulls.
So Chivell, who runs a local boat company, decided in 2002 to construct specially designed artificial nests for the flightless birds.
African penguins usually nest underground in guano (bird droppings) to protect them from the sun and predatory birds .
But since 1850 most of the islands on the South African coast have been stripped bare of the guano, that was six metres thick in places, for use as fertiliser, leaving the penguins with no protection.
Lauren Blamey, from Cape Nature Conservation, says the penguins here on Dyer Island are not only exposed to the elements but also to the threat of predators.
Project co-ordinators on the island have so far installed 200 glass fibre nests and are looking at a potential 2000 in the next few years.
Placing artificial nests on the island has helped the penguins tremendously say environmentalists.
Keyoerd-Sealife

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