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Great Barrier Reef: Feathered Fishers

Sea birds on the Great Barrier Reef.
Episode : 2 | Year : 1950 | Total Duration : 16.5 Minutes | Producer : Noel Monkman
Ws tilt to seabirds flying en masse in air during nesting season. WS man walking across white sand towards mass of birds. WS crowds of birds nesting on coral sands, some taking flight as man approaches. VS Black & white terns nesting on sand patches. CU egg laid on sand in front of adult tern. VS eggs laid on sand nests and MS hand picking up small chick.
Access No. 133032 | 2 mins 41 secs | 1950s | Michelmas Cay, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tern chick on sand sheltering head in egg shell. VS terns and chicks. GS man approaching tern on nest and VS terns on sand nests. WS sky crowded with terns in flight and pan to terns over grassy sand changing places with nesting terns. WS mass of nesting terns spilling over onto beach.
Access No. 133033 | 1 min 37 secs | 1950s | Michelmas Cay, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS man walking past rows of half-grown tern chicks on Michelmas Island walking along wet watermark on beach. MS of chicks walking in one direction. WS masses of terns in flight. Aerials over Capricorn group of islands to Norwest Island. Idyllic WS of white beach, pale shallow water and clouds in sky rising from horizon.
Access No. 133034 | 1 min 5 secs | 1950s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS two men carrying photographic equipment along sand path on Norwest Island with sea in background. Men walking into forest with difficulty. CU to crumbling ground and VS men walking awkwardly on sinking soil. CUs muttonbirds excavating nesting holes and sitting in them.
Access No. 133035 | 1 min 20 secs | 1950s | Norwest Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS man reaching into muttonbird's burrow nest and taking out egg. CU white egg in hand. Gs white-capped (black) noddies in tree tops and in flight. MS pair on branch rubbing bills. GS noddies fighting and VS breeding pair nest building. GS noddies flying through forest gathering leaves for nest.
Access No. 133036 | 3 mins 1 sec | 1950s | Norwest Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS man demonstrating stickiness of seeds from the Pisonia tree by rubbing them on his arm. CU seeds clinging to arm hairs. CUs noddy tangled in web of sticky seeds. VS man peeling seeds off noddy. GS noddy with leaf in beak flying up to nest. Good CU of white-capped (black) noddy sitting on nest.
Access No. 133037 | 1 min 29 secs | 1950s | Norwest Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS flock of noddies fishing out to sea. High shot over shoal of tightly packed fish swimming in rhythm. MS tern regurgitating food to mate on nest. Good CU noddy on egg in nest. Tilt up to several noddy nests on branches of Pisonia tree. CU chick on nest and CU chick sitting in palm of man's hand. GS chick on nest with parents.
Access No. 133038 | 1 min 50 secs | 1950s | Norwest Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS Hoskin Island (Bunkers Group) with birds in immediate foreground. Ws gannets (brown boobies) perched on bleached dropping covered gnarled tree. Slow pan across boobies in gannetry and chicks. CU brown booby sitting on egg in ground nest. CU naked newborn booby struggling from egg. CUs chick with downy white covering.
Access No. 133039 | 1 min 56 secs | 1950s | Hoskin Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS adult brown booby sheltering chick under body from heat of sun. CU chick under booby's chest. Tilt from gannetry to birds in flight. VS gannet chicks from half grown to fully fledged. tilt to brown booby flying over camera.
Access No. 133041 | 1 min 24 secs | 1950s | Hoskin Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tern chick on sand sheltering head in egg shell. VS terns and chicks. GS man approaching tern on nest and VS terns on sand nests. WS sky crowded with terns in flight and pan to terns over grassy sand changing places with nesting terns. WS mass of nesting terns spilling over onto beach.
Access No. 147622 | 1 min 37 secs | 1950s | Michelmas Cay, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Ws tilt to seabirds flying en masse in air during nesting season. WS man walking across white sand towards mass of birds. WS crowds of birds nesting on coral sands, some taking flight as man approaches. VS Black & white terns nesting on sand patches. CU egg laid on sand in front of adult tern. VS eggs laid on sand nests and MS hand picking up small chick.
Access No. 147623 | 2 mins 41 secs | 1950s | Michelmas Cay, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |