Conservationists use falconry techniques to rehabilitate birds of prey
(29 Oct 2009)
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Belem, Brazilian Amazon, September 10, 2009
1. Tilt down palm trees to Victoria Regia (Victoria Amazonica) water lilies, typical of the Amazon
2. Close up of jaguar
3. Caged jaguar
4. Tree iguana
5. Agouti (Dasyprocta aguti or Cotia in Portuguese)
6. Baby agoutis
7. Close up of Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix paspicillata) or Murucututu in Portuguese
8. Marcos Cruz carries owl from cage
9. Marcos puts owl on a scale
10. Tilt down from vegetation to Marcos carrying owl in forest
11. Close up same owl
12. Owl flies to woman's hand where it is fed, while whistle blows
13. Again owl flies, now to Marcos
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcos Cruz, Biology Student:
This here is the Murucututu owl. It is typical of the tropical forest. It is the largest tropical forest owl on the planet, therefore it feels at home here. When trained, this animal becomes more relaxed, it feels good.
15. Another flight of same owl. In background a Ceiba Pentandra tree (Samauma) one of the largest trees of the Amazon forest
16. Marcos with a Barn owl (Tyto alba) or Suindara in Portuguese
17. Close up owl feeding in his gloved hand
18. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcos Cruz, Biology Student:
I am conditioning it to eat while knowing it can be safe on the glove and receive food.
19. Marcos and Carmen entering veterinary lab
20. Marcos and veterinary medicating a baby hawk
21. Marcos examines young hawk
22. Group looking at same hawk
23. Veterinarian and students examine hawk's winks looking for fractures
24. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Messias Costa, Director of Goeldi Zoo:
(Many animals)...come from ordinary people who bring them, having received them as presents or found them in the street. When the animals are raised at home by private individuals they generally arrive here ill because they haven't been fed properly.This hawk for instance has deformed legs and here it needs special care.
25. Hawk in cage jumps to Marcos' glove. Savanna Hawk (Buteogallis Meridionalis) or Gavi�o Caboclo in Portuguese
26. Close up Marcos tying leather straps to hawk's feet.
27. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcos Cruz, Biology Student:
People think they only eat meat, but they eat a whole animal. They need the bones, they need the hair. Here we give them mice and that is what they really need, to eat the organs like the liver and heart.
28. Hand points to hawk's feet showing malformation.
29. Marcos showing Carmen details of hawk's tail feathers.
30. Hawk flies from Marcos to Carmen.
31. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Carmen Pereyra, student of veterinary medicine
(what I find most beautiful) its gait, the way it presents itself, its intelligence. These are very intelligent and perspicacious animals.
32. Another flight to Marcos' hand.
33. Close up of hawk's head.
34. Marcos talks to group of children, various (the claws are the real hunting weapons, not the beak he tells the kids).
35. Close-up Carmen's glove holding piece of meat.
36. Hawk flying to Carmen's hand.
LEAD IN:
The lives of abandoned birds of prey are being saved in one Amazonian city thanks to traditional falconry techniques.
The birds spend two months or more being trained to fend for themselves before being returned to the wild.
STORYLINE:
Natural beauty on display in a corner of Belem - a city nestling in the lush vegetation of the Brazilian Amazon.
The Goeldi Museum is the Amazon's oldest research institution.
The zoo and botanical garden, which was established in 1895, occupies 5.2 hectares in downtown Belem.
The park is a showcase for Amazon forest plants and animals.
While animals like the jaguar are caged here, others roam free partly concealed by the dense vegetation.
Buba needs to learn to live in the wild before he can be released.
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Amazon River | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:43 1 Origin of the name
00:02:52 2 History
00:03:01 2.1 Pre-Columbian era
00:05:46 2.2 Arrival of Europeans
00:06:30 2.3 Exploration
00:10:32 2.4 Scientific exploration
00:11:22 2.5 Post-colonial exploitation and settlement
00:15:32 2.6 20th-century development
00:19:07 3 Course
00:19:15 3.1 Origins
00:22:07 3.2 The Upper Amazon or Solimões
00:23:41 3.3 The Lower Amazon
00:25:18 3.4 Mouth
00:26:51 3.5 Bridges
00:27:28 3.6 Dispute regarding length
00:30:21 4 Watershed
00:33:07 4.1 Flooding
00:35:05 5 Geology
00:36:35 6 Protected areas
00:36:44 7 Flora and fauna
00:36:54 7.1 Flora
00:37:02 7.2 Fauna
00:37:41 7.2.1 Mammals
00:39:14 7.2.2 Birds
00:39:22 7.2.3 Reptiles
00:39:50 7.2.4 Fish
00:41:39 7.2.5 Butterflies
00:41:47 7.2.6 Microbiota
00:42:17 8 Major tributaries
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00:45:08 9 See also
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The Amazon River (UK: , US: ; Spanish and Portuguese: Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and by some definitions it is the longest.The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon's most distant source, until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru. The Mantaro and Apurímac join, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River, which in turn meets the Marañón River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, to form what countries other than Brazil consider to be the main stem of the Amazon. Brazilians call this section the Solimões River above its confluence with the Rio Negro to form what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of Waters (Portuguese: Encontro das Águas) at Manaus, the largest city on the river.
At an average discharge of about 209,000 cubic metres per second (7,400,000 cu ft/s; 209,000,000 L/s; 55,000,000 USgal/s)—approximately 6,591 cubic kilometres per annum (1,581 cu mi/a), greater than the next seven largest independent rivers combined—the Amazon represents 20% of the global riverine discharge to the ocean. The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi). The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin. The Amazon enters Brazil with only one-fifth of the flow it finally discharges into the Atlantic Ocean, yet already has a greater flow at this point than the discharge of any other river.