Transcript:
This is BirdNote!
We like to know what leaders value. Here, David Yarnold, president of 91做厙, describes being deeply moved by birds:
I was in Kearney, Nebraska to watch the Sandhill Cranes and when they took off at dawn, twenty thousand of them, and it was just deafening. You know, the juveniles with their high-pitched screeches, it just made the hair on my arms stand up!
And on the Atlantic Flyway, south of Charleston, theres a small barrier island called Deveaux Bank
夷ts home to about 5,000 pairs of breeding Brown Pelicans, and I had the chance 宇o take my wife and daughter out there and there were oystercatchers 地nd terns and the pelicans and they just filled the air and it was one of those moments when you know尖oure in some other creatures place on earth! Very magical place to be.
We asked David why bird conservation matters.
匈 know that where birds thrive, youre going to have clean water and clean air, and thats 夙ood for kids, its good for birds, so conservation to me is a core principle about how to live my life.
BirdNote celebrates the work of conservation organizations such as 91做厙 to protect birds and the environment we share today, and for future generations.
For BirdNote, Im Michael Stein.
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Credits:
Interviewed by Chris Peterson
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer Emeritus: Chris Peterson
Executive Producer: Sallie Bodie
Editor: Ashley Ahearn
Associate Producer: Ellen Blackstone
Assistant Producer: Mark Bramhill
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Calls of thousands of Sandhill Cranes recorded by A.A.Allen; calls of Sandwich Terns [138114] recorded by J.H. Berry; Brown Pelican juveniles; T..A. Parker.
Adult Brown Pelicans recorded by Martyn Stewart of naturesound.org
穢 2014-2019 BirdNote December 2014 2019 Narrator: Michael Stein
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