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Re: NPR: manx Shearwaters close up!

Subject: Re: NPR: manx Shearwaters close up!
From: "Toby Sinkinson" tobysinkinson
Date: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:48 am ((PST))
I think the link may have moved...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D99023308&sc=3Demaf

toby

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Lou Judson <> wrote:
> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D99898924>
>
> Description:
> "Manx shearwaters summer on tiny Great Blasket Island off the west
> coast of Ireland. These birds make heroic migrations every year to
> South American. When they nest, they build burrows in the sand and
> dirt instead of traditional nests. Wildlife recordist Asta Bowen
> caught the birds coming home to their burrows during the night."
>
> Cornell recordist Bowen says "This is the most exciting moment of my
> life" or words to that effect!
>
> <L>
>
>



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