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{SPEAKER name="Denise Freeland"}
anxious to share his knowledge.

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{SPEAKER name="Marvin Salo"}
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I have never sold anything I have. My display, the material that I do, is travelling the state of Minnesota now is called Scandinavian Wood, and I've donated this all for the use of the state of Minnesota to show the younger generation and get more people interested in the craft and our heritage and our way of life.

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{SPEAKER name="Denise Freeland"}
Marvin Salo of Embarrass, Minnesota, one of the Finnish Americans at this year's festival of American folk life. Reporting from the Smithsonian Institution, I'm Denise Freeland.
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{SPEAKER name="Denise Freeland"}
Naturalists Rediscover a Rare Bird in the Philippines. From the Smithsonian Institution this is Smithsonian Galaxy. Deep in the rain forests of the Philippine islands lives the rarest eagle in the world. With a seven foot wingspan and a moppy crest on its head, legend has named this bird the Philippine monkey-eating eagle, but Wolfgang Salb who recently filmed these eagles in their natural habitat, says they really don't live up to their name.

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{SPEAKER name="Wolfgang Salb"}
We saw that the eagle harassing the monkeys and the monkeys would do the same. The eagle would perch on a limb and the monkeys would dart out at them and actually the reason they didn't prey on them very often was because the monkeys were large and they really wouldn't want to take the chance.

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{SPEAKER name="Denise Freeland"}
Naturalist and photographer Neil Rettig accompanied Mr. Salb on the eighteen month expedition to study the bird in the wild. Since very little was known about the eagle before, Mr. Rettig feels their research will now help keep it from extinction.

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{SPEAKER name="Neil Rettig"}
That's the most important thing if you get the people interested and they see the eagle and they're motivated, then they might think twice about pulling a trigger or chopping a nest tree down.

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{SPEAKER name="Denise Freeland"}
Photographing the Philippine monkey-eating eagle was no easy task, recalls Mr. Salb, especially when dealing with adult eagles protecting their nests.

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Transcription Notes:
Guest speakers are Wolfgang Salb and Neil Rettig. Names and spelling confirmed here: http://www.aenet.org/philip/phiindex.htm from SI instructions: "STEP FIVE: When the entire segment is transcribed and the recording has reached the end of the segment, insert a final timestamp."