[wisb] FW: Watch Our Birds on Milwaukee's MPTV

From: Yoyi Steele <yoyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:27:57 -0500
Good morning,
Below is viewing information in the Milwaukee area for the new "In
Wisconsin" special, "Our Birds", which Andy Paulios asked me to forward to
Wisbirdn.

I caught this when it aired in Madison last Thursday and it is well worth
watching!

Happy viewing!

Yoyi Steele
Madison, Dane Co.


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 Our Birds, An In Wisconsin Special
 9 p.m. Thursday, May 12
on Milwaukee Public Television

Every spring and fall more than 240 species of birds travel to and through
Wisconsin as they migrate between summer breeding grounds in the north and
wintering grounds in Latin America.

Explore the pressures these birds face during their migrations. Neotropical
migratory birds, neo-trops, can fly more than 3,000 miles one way, and often
arrive at their destination exhausted and in need of proper habitat. Find
out how people in Wisconsin, Costa Rica and Panama are working to save these
tiny travelers.

MPTV in Milwaukee will encore the program at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 14.

Visit the Our Birds website<
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for information about migratory routes, creating bird habitats and streaming
video.

Funding for Our Birds, An In Wisconsin Special is provided by Alliant
Energy, and Animal Dentistry and Oral Surgery Specialists LLC of Milwaukee,
Oshkosh and Minneapolis. Additional funding is provided by the Paul E. Stry
Foundation of La Crosse and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.

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Birders react to a find in Panama.

Production Notes from WPT Producer Jo Garrett

One of the goals of our field shoots to Panama and Costa Rica was to
document people working to save "our birds." These birders are doing just
that by birding! They signed up for a "conservation birding trip." It's a
concept pioneered by Wisconsin conservationist Craig Thompson. Here's how it
works: the birders get a break on the cost of the birding trip but they must
also agree to make a donation that will be used to purchase bird habitat.

The birders in both Costa Rica and Panama were wonderful to us. They were
generous with their time, advice, and helping us spot birds.

I love this photo, at right, because I think it shows the birders'
enthusiasm. It's an intoxicating activity; I can see why people love it. The
birds are beautiful and interesting, and birding can take you to some
wonderful places like Panama, one of the world's top birding spots.

But birding in Wisconsin can also take you to some terrific places. And
here's the other item that I love about this photo: knowing the rainforest
that surrounds those birders shelters our Wisconsin neo-trops for a good
part of the year.


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WPT Producer Jo Garrett and WPT Videographer Frank Boll (working, always
working) in Panama.

I have followed Frank Boll as he's videotaped wildlife for many, many years
- wolves, pine martens, hibernating bears, bullsnakes. The list is long.
What I like about this photo, at left, is that it shows Frank's dedication.
We were traveling to a new location, and as we traveled he used the time and
the different angle to gather more footage, great footage, a traveling shot
through the rainforest.

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Wild Cat Researcher Ricardo Moreno and WPT Videographer Frank Boll in Costa
Rica

If you save the ocelot, you save the oriole. We explored that connection
with Moreno, in image at right. He and fellow researcher Aida Bustamante
have set up one of the largest camera trap grids in the world to capture
photos and garner information about five Costa Rican wild cat populations:
the puma, the ocelot, the jaguar, the jagurundi and the margay.

Ricardo got a photo of a margay that day. What a rare occurrence. Reason?
Margays live in the trees of the rainforest and seldom, sometimes never,
touch the ground. Amazing. The canopy cat.


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WPT Videographer Frank Boll and WPT Sound Recordist Kerman Eckes in Costa
Rica



Early morning. Rio Tigre. Barefoot. Working. I think this is a great
production photo at left. They are intent on their job, gathering images and
sound, and all around them the day is unfolding.


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