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The Earth-Touch baby album Apr 30 2008
Over the months, Earth-Touch has been privileged to witness the early days, survival struggles and playful moments of many young animals. Here is a selection of these video clips.
Tags: africa, baboon, baby, bath, bird, botswana, burrow, calf, cape, chick, coast, colony, cub, delta, den, dog, egg, elephant, endangered, fish, fly, foal, giraffe, herd, hluhluwe, imfolozi, juvenile, karoo, kite, kwazulu-natal, lion, mammal, meerkat, monkey, moremi, mud, okavango, piglet, reef, sodwana, south africa, thailand, tree, trunk, video, warthog, water, western cape, whale, young, zebraFledglings prepare for flight Jan 30 2008
Yellow-billed kites (Milvus migrans parasitus) are opportunistic feeders. They glide through the air, scanning the ground for carcasses of dead animals, or for small live prey such as lizards, locusts and frogs.
The adult kite that Earth-Touch has been tracking attends to its chicks’ needs, but soon it will be vital for these young fledglings to learn the ultimate survival skill, flight.
Tags: amphibian, bird, carcasse, chick, fly, frog, glide, kite, kwazulu-natal, lizard, locust, nest, prey, reptile, south africa, wing, yellow-billed kiteThe skimmers have returned Oct 23 2007
After a period of absence from the sandbanks of the Nxamaseri Channel in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, the African skimmers appear to have returned.
The Earth-Touch film crew spotted these endangered birds after it was thought that they had left the Nxamaseri area for the season.
Tags: african skimmer, bird, chick, egg, skimmer, threatenedWhat happened to the skimmers? Oct 10 2007
Much to everyone’s surprise, the migratory African skimmers have already left the sandbank at Nxamaseri in the Okavango Delta, where they were nesting and attempting to raise their chicks. This abrupt departure brings to an end a spectacularly unsuccessful season for the endangered birds.
Living the hide life … is for the birds Oct 2 2007
By Graham Springer, field crew
I’ve been filming out of Nxamaseri for the past three weeks. The Nxamaseri Channel is a major tributary of the Okavango River, about halfway up the panhandle area of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
Tags: basin, bird, chick, cubango river, cuito river, egg, hide, hippo, kalahari desert, monitor lizard, monkey, panhandle, papyrus, reed, reptile, sitatunga, snakeDid you know? African fish eagle Oct 2 2007
This fairly large eagle is related to the North American bald eagle, and looks quite similar. As its name suggests, the African fish eagle feeds mainly on fish but it has been known to eat the chicks of shore birds or even, rarely, monkeys, frogs and lizards.
Tags: african fish eagle, bird, chick, eagle, frog, lizard, monkey, preyDid you know? Nictitating membranes Oct 1 2007
Many animals have a third eyelid called a nictitating membrane. This is a clear or translucent membrane that can be drawn diagonally or horizontally across the eyeball. It protects the eye from foreign particles, dryness and injury.
Do or die? Sep 10 2007
By Andy Crawford, field crewNature is harsh. Sometimes exceedingly so. This is obvious to anyone who has seen the Earth-Touch video clip of the nesting skimmer colony in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, entitled Tension mounts on skimmer bank. The seemingly senseless killing of a two-day-old skimmer chick by an adult skimmer is difficult to watch, and even more difficult to comprehend. Since mentioning this incident to a few people, the question most often asked is, “Why didn’t the film crew help the chick?”
African skimmer chicks hatch Sep 6 2007
In the past few days Earth-Touch has broadcast footage of this season’s first African skimmers being born in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
African skimmers are an endangered species. They are striking black and white birds, with large, orange beaks, which they use to skim the surface of the water for fish, as they fly along. Their chicks are the colour of tortoise shell, and they have yet to develop their iconic beaks.
Tags: african skimmer, beak, bird, chick, colour, fly, skimmer, threatenedWildlife news from around the world
Bald eagle numbers growing in 2 US states Aug 24 2007
Bald eagles were once on the brink of extinction, but now seem to be doing well – at least in the north-eastern states of Maine and New Hampshire in the United States.
The Boston Globe reported earlier this month that there were 14 nesting pairs in New Hampshire this year, and that in Maine, the number of fledglings had increased from 266 fledged eaglets in 2001 to 316 last year.
African skimmers lay their first eggs Aug 20 2007
By Andy Crawford, field crew
The African skimmers resident on the sandbank in the Nxamaseri channel in the Okavango Delta of Botswana have laid their first eggs, which means that in about three weeks we will have tiny fluffy bundles wobbling around learning how to be real birds.
Tags: african skimmer, bird, chick, fur, sandbank, skimmer, threatenedThe early birds Jul 19 2007
By Andy Crawford, field crew
The skimmers have arrived! This probably doesn’’t sound like a significant event to the non-twitchers amongst us. Those in the know, however, will find it very peculiar.
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