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MF-0042. Caspian Tern Colony at Shoe Island. (1942)

1942 · Short film · 1 min

Synopsis

Black and white, silent motion picture film created by B. T. Gault of bird colony on Shoe Island, in the Beaver Island archipelago, St. James Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan. Actual date of film unknown, ca. 1900-1942, likely 1920s. Film shows rocky shore line with intermittent short vegetation, hundreds of gulls or terns flying, water in the distance; men picking up juvenile terns and banding them, eggs on beach.

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