Two western grebes running on water in courtship display (Core Number: NBSD750B)

NAME: SKO OIL 20071209I TAPE: EF07/1470 IN_TIME: 10:57:16:07 DURATION: 00:02:07:24 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Mallipo Beach - 9 Dec 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of sea shore of Mallipo Beach 2. The oil tanker, which spilt tens of thousands of crude oil into the ocean 3. Various of sea wave being mixed with black oil 4. Residents of feet and their foot prints 5. Wide of residents cleaning the oil 6. Residents scooping oil with shovels 7. Close-up of residents scooping oil with dustpans 8. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Oh Ok-bong, a 72-year-old resident: "I don't know what to say. We're heavily depending our lives on this sea, but it has been contaminated. there isn't any plan for us." 9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) : Gu Ung-pyo, a 74-year-old resident: "I don't know if this would take two years or three years (to clean all up). This is very serious. Everything is ruined." 10. Wide pan of residents and volunteers cleaning the seashore 11. Mid of residents and volunteers 12. Coast Guards vessels cleaning the contaminated water 13. Volunteers taking out of the tanks of oil 14. Various of volunteers pouring the oil to a larger tank 15. Tilt-down from residents to two oil drums 16. Close-up of purifying tank truck sucking the oil out of the drums SOUNDBITE: (Korean): Lee Young-ho, a Coast Guard official in Namhae seashore: "Right now we have about 3,500 people, including the coast guards and volunteers, coming out and helping to clean the water. We'll have about 5-thousand people continuously helping in this." 17. Wide of people cleaning the seashore 18. Mid of people scooping the oil with shovels 19. Wide of seashore STORYLINE: South Korea's Coast Guard mobilised thousands of people on Sunday to clean up a disastrous oil spill polluting a swathe of the country's scenic and environmentally rich western coast. About 100 ships, including Coast Guard, navy and private fishing boats, were to help contain and clean up the spill, South Korea's worst ever, said Coast Guard Official Lee Young-ho. Lee said about 5-thousand people, including government personnel, local residents and volunteers, were expected to participate. "Right now we have about 3,500 people, including the coast guards and volunteers, coming out and helping to clean the water. We'll have about 5-thousand people continuously helping in this," Lee said. The oil started hitting beaches, including Mallipo, on Saturday after a Hong Kong-registered supertanker was slammed the day before by a South Korean-owned barge that came unmoored from its tugboat in rough seas. A total of 66-thousand barrels (10.5 (m) million liters (2.7 (m) million gallons) of crude gushed into the ocean, more than twice as much as in South Korea's worst previous spill in 1995. Thick, smelly waves of crude washed ashore, turning seagulls black and threatening fish farms along a 17-kilometre (11-mile) stretch of coast, despite efforts to block it, including dropping oil fences into the ocean and the use of chemicals to break it up. The Coast Guard said the last of three leaks in the tanker had been plugged Sunday. Mallipo is one of South Korea's best-known beaches, an important stopover for migrating birds, including snipe, mallards and great crested grebes, and has an abundant fishing industry. Oh Ok-bong, a 72-year-old resident, came to the beach on Sunday to help, but despaired for the area where he has lived for 30 years. "I don't know what to say. We're heavily depending our lives on this sea, but it has been contaminated. there isn't any plan for us," he said. The central government has designated the oil spill a "disaster," which makes it easier for regional governments to mobilize personnel, equipment and material to cope with the situation. But it stopped short of declaring the region a "disaster area," which would make residents eligible for government financial aid, despite pleas to do so. The accident occurred about 11 kilometers (7 miles) off Mallipo. The area also includes a national maritime park. The Coast Guard said it was unclear how many days the operation would take. The accident occurred on Friday morning when a crane-carrying barge en route from a construction site lost control after a wire linking it to the tugboat was cut due to high winds, waves and currents. The vessel then slammed into the Hebei Spirit tanker. Neither ship was in danger of sinking and there were no casualties. The tanker had been at anchor and carrying about 260-thousand tons - about 1.8 (m) million barrels - of crude oil to be loaded into boats from a nearby port. The size of the leak reported by the authorities would be about one-fourth that of the 260-thousand barrels, or 11(m) million gallons, spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound by the Exxon Valdez in 1989. The spill was also smaller than one in Pakistan in 2003 when a Greek-registered ship ran aground near Karachi, leaking some 195,940 barrels (8.2 (m) million gallons) of crude that polluted the city's main beaches.

Western Grebe, The

Klamath Falls, Western Grebe, (Aechmophorus occidentalis)

WESTERN GREBES ON LAKE, RAGING WATER AND STREAM

SO LITTLE TIME

Distant hills visible, Okanagan, B.C.

HAIRDRYER, PLUG, WESTERN GREBES, MELTING ICE, STREAM, ELK GRAZING, LINEMEN WORKING AT SUNSET, POWER LINES, CELL PHONE; INT- woman in bathrobe drying her hair w/ hairdryer in front of mirror, var.; INT- camera focusing on hairdryer, woman's image on mirror is blurry, woman drying her hair, cu hairdryer drying hair; INT- cu hand inserting plug into electrical outlet, pulls it out, var.; DX- single western grebe in lake, two grebes meet, one of the two grebes dives in water; DX- cu water dripping from piece of melting ice, clear water running in bg, var.; DX- stream w/ crystal clear water, piece of ice melting over stream, clear stream water flowing over rocks w/ snow/ice; DX- single elk grazing, tilt up clear lake to m/s of snow covered mountains, Stanley lake & McGowan peak; SUNSET- silhouetted linemen fixing power lines at sunset, var. camera tilt down & tilt up; SUNSET- var. power line towers, DX- tilt down power line tower to man w/ hard hat looking into binoculars, speaks into radio; DX-man in yellow hard hat talking on cell phone & looking into binoculars, reporting what he is observing; DX- tilt-up row of power line towers on mountains, var.; DX- police escorting runners, man running w/ lit torch; DX- pov from outside, man in blue bathrobe drinks coffee and looks out window on rainy day, var.; NX- woman in bed wakes up and turns on lamp, cu hand turns on lamp ;

Wild birds including a common loon and western grebe pair paddle through the calm waters of Denver's Harriman Reservoir while a turnstone hunts during a warm spring morning.

T/L DAM, T/L STREAM, T/L RAGING WATERS, LIGHTS COME ON AT NX HOUSE, RAINDROPS, CU SHOWER HEAD, POURING COFFEE; DX- t/l dam w/ spillway, white clouds rolling above t/l dam; DX- t/l water flowing over rocks, t/l raging stream; DX- t/l stream, various, t/l stream water thru broken branches, more t/l streams; DUSK-slow tilt up, dark house, lights come on, shadow of man stretching appears by window; DUSK- reflection of house in lake, light comes on, man's shadow appears by window, man stretching, var. takes; NX- shadow of man stretching passes by window, var.; DX- western grebes on lake, p-out, var. raging water/stream; DX-calm lake w/ mountains in bg, p-out snow covered mountain w/ calm lake in fg, slo-mo raging waters; DX- cu melting snow on branches, various, single water droplet drops in lake and creates a rippling effect; DX- water droplets dripping in lake, creating a rippling effect; DX- water drops dripping from leaves, single western grebe floating among reeds on lake, hawk soaring in blue sky, two hawks soaring; DX-raindrops in lake, flies flying by sparkling lake, rain falling on leaves, slo-mo rain falling on leaves; DX- var. yellow headed blackbird flying over tall grass, lands on stalk, bird slides down stalk, yellow headed bird in grass; INT-man in shower, bathing, man washing shampoo off his hair, cu shower head, water is shut off, feet in shower; INT- slo-mo man showering, var., cu shower head, tilt up water stream to shower head, water is shut off; INT- shower head dripping, feet in shower, water dripping in tub; INT- h/s coffee maker, hand pouring coffee into mug ;

Pair of Western grebes perform a courtship dance with twig gifts in their beaks (Core Number: NBSK461B)

In the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, pairs of western grebe birds are seen running over the water in a river during a courtship ritual Utah, U.S.A., 1969. Part 2. When a pair of Western Grebes decides it’s time to mate, they call loudly and approach one another. Each bird curves, then straightens, its long neck gracefully. They then face each other, necks on the water’s surface, their bills flipping up drops of water. If attraction prevails, they rush together and off they go across the water, running on the surface side by side. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge encompasses the Bear River and its delta where it flows into the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in eastern Box Elder County. It includes a variety of habitats, such as open water, mudflats, wetlands, and uplands. The refuge hosts millions of migratory birds each year including species such as bald eagle and tundra swan. There are more than 41,000 acres (170 km2) of freshwater wetlands. The Refuge is approx. 80,000 acres of Federal and State lands that are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The surrounding lands are occupied by multiple hunting clubs along the bird migration route.

a Grebe pair swim in a marsh in Northern Utah

Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) captured in Western Caucasus, Russia

Western grebe floating on lake, feeding chick resting on its back (Core Number: NBSD747T)

In the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, pairs of western grebe birds are seen running over the water in a river during a courtship ritual Utah, U.S.A., 1969. Part 1. When a pair of Western Grebes decides it’s time to mate, they call loudly and approach one another. Each bird curves, then straightens, its long neck gracefully. They then face each other, necks on the water’s surface, their bills flipping up drops of water. If attraction prevails, they rush together and off they go across the water, running on the surface side by side. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge encompasses the Bear River and its delta where it flows into the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in eastern Box Elder County. It includes a variety of habitats, such as open water, mudflats, wetlands, and uplands. The refuge hosts millions of migratory birds each year including species such as bald eagle and tundra swan. There are more than 41,000 acres (170 km2) of freshwater wetlands. The Refuge is approx. 80,000 acres of Federal and State lands that are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The surrounding lands are occupied by multiple hunting clubs along the bird migration route.

a group of Grebes swim in a lake in south central Montana

a group of Grebes swim in a lake in south central Montana

A western grebe swims across Telegraph Cove. (Core Number: NBSK539H)

Clark's Grebe, Gilbert, Arizona Arizona , Nature and Travel concepts

In the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, a male western grebe is seen having prepared a floatable raft made of vegetation around the river. The raft would be used during its courtship ritual. Utah, U.S.A., 1969. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge encompasses the Bear River and its delta where it flows into the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in eastern Box Elder County. It includes a variety of habitats, such as open water, mudflats, wetlands, and uplands. The refuge hosts millions of migratory birds each year including species such as bald eagle and tundra swan. There are more than 41,000 acres (170 km2) of freshwater wetlands. The Refuge is approx. 80,000 acres of Federal and State lands that are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The surrounding lands are occupied by multiple hunting clubs along the bird migration route.

Clark's Grebe, Gilbert, Arizona Arizona , Nature and Travel concepts