Week 3: neutral (1-1) vs. ZYG (1-1) \\ ZYG wins by no-show

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Season 3



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ATTENBOROUGH: MIGRATORY PATTERNS OF THE SPOTTED CHESTERNEL.

(topic 10: “Animals are leaving your town at an unheard-of rate. Birds, squirrels, rabbits and even insects are migrating elsewhere.”)

'Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen.'
I’m here in El Seware - Patagonia, searching for a very rare bird indeed.
The Spotted Chesternel.

The first species we’ve come across is the Woolly Hopping Squirrel.
It glides with a taut skin membrane outstretched across its middle.
Jumping from one branch to the next, taking off and landing again and again,
It is searching for much the same thing as its nearby avian friends.
See if we look atop the craggy outcrop’s mountain fissure,
We can see a small flock of Seed-eating Flowerpeckers.
Their name - is a bit of a misnomer, the Flowerpecker has a voracious appetite.
They eat seeds, insects, even leeches and other dangerous parasites.
Now have a gander at this Striped Carcu, its dark plumage interspersed with crested white lines,
That long wingspan allows it to achieve an impressive climb.
It makes a tempting target, if it couldn’t fly, it wouldn’t ever survive.
This Arctic Hawk on the otherhand, is a predator - of the most deadly kind.
At first glance, the Arctic Hawk looks the same as any other predatory bird,
But it’s the bird equivalent of a sniper, sitting aloft its territories perch.
Just waiting for an opportunity, it’s eyes, incredibly powerful and sharp,
It is an image of beauty. The Artic Hawk is both graceful and smart.
Now here’s another animal that’s fast. The Cottontail Snow Rabbit.
Thanks to those well-developed hind legs, its change of direction is so rapid.
Unlike the Artic Hawk, the Cottontail relies on its speed - for defense.
It will zig-zag away from anything and everything it perceives as a threat.
It is closely related to another nearby funny neighbor,
This interesting character is the Nocturnal Burrowing Beaver.
Our night vision camera can see this better than I can,
This type of beaver eats the abundant leaf litter, and does not build any type of dam.
And if you listen closely, you can hear a strange sound like, Click, Clock, Clack.
It is of course - made by an insect, but what an extraordinary one at that.
The Orchestra Cricket, the superb chirps it can form by changing air pressure.
The females sing to attract mates, the males sing to ward off competitors.
This is a young Common Water Pigeon, and look there is another.
They are sitting in their swampy nest, closely guarded by their mother.
Unlike the European Pigeon the Common Water Pigeon has three long claws,
Used for holding onto the branches above the swamp, of course.
The Spotted Chesternel should also be here by such shallow lagoons,
but before migration it is only found in a single place, Yortown – Cameroon.
And once every ten years it flies across the South Atlantic Ocean.
It has come here - to give birth, disregarding the flight path it has chosen.
We are looking for it signature feathers, or its fluffed up single plume,
Even finding its distinctive markings will suffice, anything will do.
Finding such a rare and beautiful species would be truly inspirational.
And every now and again you find a sign that is unmistakable.

See these signs of scratching, it is made by the Chesternel’s notched beak,
This extraordinary bird should be here in the nearby swamp, just beyond this small peak.
And finally after two weeks we have found her, all is well.
It is a single Spotted Chesternel.

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