Here’s a pair of chunge’ at Påkpak Beach. Look at these beauties. Tremendous gliders, chunge’ use thermal updrafts to fly as far away as 120 miles. That’s why seafarers kept an eye out for them during voyages—their flight direction right before sunset indicated where land was.pic.twitter.com/psED7rMniB
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Replying to @ChamorroTweets
Those are fairy terns, or white terns! And the way they nest was always crazy to me. They lay eggs on a bare branch. Not a nest. ON A BRANCH. Very common among the ironwood trees on beach road.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika @ChamorroTweets
whoa no way! I made a short film on a bird called the marbled murrelet that’s does that exact thing here in Oregon/the PNW. I was so baffled by that strategy that I figured they were one of the only birds to do something like that but I stand corrected
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Replying to @_danideru_
May I ask what this fim is about or like why you made it?? I am so interested!
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika
Sure! I did a profile video on murrelet research a few years back and then revisited it as a creative piece that's more about how researchers study them. I would have liked to feature the birds themselves, but they're endangered/hard to find and the budget was pretty minimal
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Replying to @_danideru_
The short is called "On the Wing." I shot most of the footage and cut the edit featuring prose from a creative writing student here at OSU. I'm realizing now that I forgot to tell anyone once it was finished! Hope you enjoy this little slice of the PNW.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfizb3MQfE …
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Loved it. Love the prose, the ferns, you even captured fiddleheads :') which I also love to take photos of. It was poetic science. Thank you.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika
meggai ma'åse!! thanks for watching
(also yeah aren't those ferns the coolest?? never gets old to me!)0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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