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Bird islands of Peru
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 16
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Brooklyn Museum's Peruvian Littoral Expedition, 1919-1920. This film was made during the expedition to the islands off Peru under the auspices of the Brooklyn Museum. Robert Cushman Murphy, who was then a curator of the Department of Natural Science at the Brooklyn Museum, led the expedition and narrates the film. The expedition went to study the guano-producing birds on these islands. Some of the footage in this film was purchased from the National Guano Administration of...
Dates:
[1920?]
Found in:
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C. Beil photographic slide collection of bird traces, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 118
Abstract
Photographs of a herring gull nest in a rock crevice and bird tracks found at a sand worm feeding.
Dates:
undated
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