Bird Calls of Amazonia
Considering how sweaty and dehydrated I became during this film shoot, it's remarkable that Ernesto and the rest of the bird team were diligently out for long periods of time, at all hours...
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Hey! So, we're here with Ernesto Ruelas, who is an ornithologist with the Action Center. What are we going to be doing today? - What we're going to do is follow Trail #4. We're going to be looking for birds. So the way we do this work is that we follow the pre-opened trail that Alvaro has worked on for several weeks. And we look for birds. We do this at a slow pace so we can detect as many as we can. - What should we keep in mind while we're doing this? Like, be quiet? - This is the most complex bird landscape that you can find in the world, so that takes a lot of work. First is to be aware that most of the birds that we'll be recording, we won't see. 80% of the birds we only listen to. I have 7 x 42 binoculars that have grea...
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Hey! So, we're here with Ernesto Ruelas, who is an ornithologist with the Action Center. What are we going to be doing today? - What we're going to do is follow Trail #4. We're going to be looking for birds. So the way we do this work is that we follow the pre-opened trail that Alvaro has worked on for several weeks. And we look for birds. We do this at a slow pace so we can detect as many as we can. - What should we keep in mind while we're doing this? Like, be quiet? - This is the most complex bird landscape that you can find in the world, so that takes a lot of work. First is to be aware that most of the birds that we'll be recording, we won't see. 80% of the birds we only listen to. I have 7 x 42 binoculars that have grea...
