Summary

LET'S LOOK AT THE BIRDS

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Title: LET'S LOOK AT THE BIRDS
File Number: HC-61 35mm; 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1948
Description: B W 1948 Nature animal film about birds, mostly shore birds. Narrated by Ward Wilson. . 00:02:12:00 B W 1948 Bonaventure Island (Canada) in the North Atlantic: VS gannet bird rookery, the birds cover steep rocky cliffs birds flying about, tending to and feeding their young nestlings, courting each other gently knocking bills, etc. 00:03:38:00 B W 1948 Some puffins gathered on rocky shore. 00:03:55:00 B W 1948 Some murre birds gathered on rocky coast with fledglings and eggs, one sits directly on egg to incubate. 00:04:14:00 B W 1948 Brief shot of some razor-billed auks. 00:04:34:00 B W 1948 VS good shots of hummingbirds: CUs of hummingbird feeding at flowers, perching restfully, sitting in nest CU tiny eggs in tiny nest hummingbird regurgitates and feeds its hatchlings. 00:05:45:00 B W 1948 VS storks: family of storks in their nest atop a house chimney parent stork kills a frog on ground and shares it with family at the nest stork in flight family of storks in nest atop a dead tree fledgling storks stretch and flap their wings, getting ready to take first flights. 00:07:50:00 B W 1948 Pelicans: pair of pelicans resting on beach shore WS flock of pelicans around and flying above beach fledgling eating regurgitated food out of its parent's mouth pouch. 00:08:25:00 B W 1948 Cormorants: cormorant takes off from nest filled with hatchlings on shore cormortant flock on rocky coast fledgling sticks head into parent's mouth to eat regurgitated food. 00:08:57:00 B W 1948 Cruelty to animals: VS Japanese fishermen in canoes tie leashes leads around cormorants and use them as living fishing-lines after each bird has made a catch they are reeled in and forced to regurgitate the fish
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