BBC Life of Birds Disc 1: The Mastery Of Flight (2000)

Index

For all their grace and agility, birds face serious challenges in getting into the air, staying there, and landing safely. Among their many adaptations is the single weight-saving feature that only birds possess - feathers.

Peter's DVD rating:

01:30	Streaked Shearwater climbs trees to launch, nests in woodland (Japan)	03:05	Ringneck Dove jumps off ground	03:40	Waved Albatross taxies along "runway", glides
06:45	Great Knot flapping	07:25	Mallard flying	08:00	Osprey catches fish facing forward to reduce drag
09:20	Great White Pelican in synchronized formation flying	11:00	Griffon Vulture sails on thermals (Spain)	12:20	Attenborough in glider
14:10	Brown Pelican landing	14:30	Whooper Swan landing on water	15:00	Albatross crash landing
15:40	Griffon Vulture lands on cliff	16:10	Golden Eagle light weight beak, bones, feathers; preens	19:05	Sword-billed Hummingbird combs feathers with foot
19:30	Lesser Flamingo preening and bathing	20:50	Quail dust bathing	21:30	White Cockatoo has powder feathers
22:20	Crow anting by landing on nest	24:10	Peregrine Falcon diving	24:55	Barn Owl silent flight
26:50	Common Kestrel hovering	28:20	Hummingbird figure-of-8 beating	30:20	Andean Hillstar hibernates (torpor) in cave (Andes)
31:45	Giant Hummingbird feeds on cactus	32:30	Purple-throated Woodstar can beat wings 75 times/sec (Ecuador)	33:00	Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (south England)
33:20	Snow Goose chicks (northern Canada)	35:00	Western Sandpiper probes for worms in mud (Arctic)	35:25	Dickcissel feeds young (prairie)
36:10	Red-tailed Hawk chick	37:20	Western Sandpipers migrate to same patch in Panama	38:20	Hawks and Vultures need thermals to migrate as far south as Argentina
39:10	Snow Goose can navigate by stars at night; migrate to California	42:15	Western Sandpipers in Mexico	43:30	Ruby-throated Hummingbird migrates across Gulf of Mexico nonstop, to Mexici, feeds on Delphinium nectar, then to Panama
46:15	Dickcissels migrate in gigantic flocks, up to half a million strong, to Venezuala farms	48:50	Humminbirds feeding, pollinate plants	50:00	Andean Hillstar feeds on Chuquiragua , torpor at night
50:50	Giant Hummingbird feeds on Puya , nests on cactus bound with spider webs, feeds young with nectar

01:30 Streaked Shearwater	03:05 Ringneck Dove	03:40 Waved Albatross
06:45 Great Knot	07:25 Mallard	08:00 Osprey
09:20 Great White Pelican in synchronized formation flying	11:00 Griffon Vulture sails on thermals	14:10 Brown Pelican
14:30 Whooper Swan	16:10 Golden Eagle	19:05 Sword-billed Hummingbird
19:30 Lesser Flamingo	20:50 Quail dust bathing	21:30 White Cockatoo
22:20 Crow anting	24:10 Peregrine Falcon diving	24:55 Barn Owl silent flight
26:50 Common Kestrel hovering	30:20 Andean Hillstar	31:45 Giant Hummingbird
32:30 Purple-throated Woodstar	33:00 Hummingbird Clearwing Moth	33:20 Snow Goose chicks
35:00 Western Sandpiper	35:25 Dickcissel feeds young	36:10 Red-tailed Hawk chick
39:10 Snow Goose	43:30 Ruby-throated Hummingbird	43:30 Delphinium
46:15 Dickcissels	50:00 Chuquiragua	50:50 Giant Hummingbird
50:50 Puya

Index	Dec 04, 2005	Peter Chen 2.0