(19 Apr 2025)
SOUTH AFRICA BIRDS OF PREY
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Velddrif, South Africa – 9 March 2025
1. Wide of Jacques Nel, Managing Director of The Owl Orphanage, bringing a bird container into his clinic
2. Close of Jacques Nel preparing medication for an injured black-shouldered kite
3. Jacques Nel takes the injured black-shouldered kite out of a container to give it medical treatment
4. Tilt down of Jacques Nel inspecting an injured black-shouldered kite that was hit by a car less than 24 hours previously
5. Close of Jacques Nel
6. Close of injured black-shouldered kite receiving medication
7. Pan of exterior of The Owl Orphanage
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Cape Town, South Africa – 11 March 2025
8. Mid of Dr. Megan Murgatroyd, raptor specialist, working at her laptop
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Megan Murgatroyd, Associate Director, African and Asian Programmes, Hawkwatch International:
“Raptors globally are not doing well. Just over 50% of raptor species globally are in decline. And that’s true for South Africa and we’re seeing it in the Western Cape as well.”
10. Mid of Dr. Megan Murgatroyd working at her laptop
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Megan Murgatroyd, Associate Director, African and Asian Programmes, Hawkwatch International:
“In the ecosystem, they’re important for controlling rodent species, for taking out weak or sick animals, vultures are important for cleaning up the environment. There’s a whole mix of roles, but generally having raptors in the environment is important for balance and without them the ecosystem is clearly not healthy and not okay.”
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Velddrif, South Africa – 9 March 2025
12. Jacques Nel collects food to give to the birds of prey he is rehabilitating
13. Jacques Nel enters an enclosure to feed a blue crane
14. Pan inside a bird of prey enclosure where Jacques Nel is feeding birds he is rehabilitating
15. Spotted eagle owl on the left and a cape eagle owl on the right within an encolsure
16. Jackal buzzard within an enclosure
17. Kestrel within an enclosure
18. Peregrine falcon within an enclosure, pan to Nel
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacques Nel, Managing Director of The Owl Orphanage:
“The main threats for birds of prey at the moment, I think number one is climate change. And the reason for that is because of breeding season. We have already over the past couple of years seen a difference in time to when breeding starts and when it ends. That is not like that anymore. It’s either earlier, it’s later, or during the time, or after the time, which can pose certain problems when it then either starts warming up or cooling down, or suddenly there’s rain which it is not supposed to rain in a non-rainy season, and then the young would die.”
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Cape Town, South Africa – 11 March 2025
20. Wide SPCA Wildlife Unit, Cape Town
21. SPCA Wildlife Supervisor Jon Friedman enters a temporary enclosure housing an African Goshawk to feed the bird
22. African Goshawk looks down at its meal
23. African Goshawk feeds on a mouse
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Friedman, SPCA Wildlife Supervisor:
“This bird came to us about two months ago as an injured stray. He had an eye injury and a wing injury as well. Two days later we took him up to our rehabilitation centre at the Owl Orphanage, where he spent another two months in rehab, getting to this point where he is now, where he is ready to go back into the wild — his eye has been healed, his wing is perfect, his weight is perfect, his flight fitness is 100%.”
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