Movies: Birds

In Pica Pica Kristersson invites the viewer to be enthralled for an hour and a half by the vicissitudes of magpie life. Opposing himself to the current nature films that tend to highly compress time in order to end up with a concentrated sequence of ...

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Shows the adaptations of several birds which enable them to obtain food, fly, swim, and live efficiently in certain habitats. Examines the differences in bills adapted for spearing fish, breaking seeds, tearing prey, or chipping wood. Demonstrates ...

The long running, often bitter scientific debate over the origin of birds and the evolution of flight....

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Swedish documentary on African birds....

A small curious bird tries to impress a new friend....

"Harupoy sa Hangin" takes viewers to Olango Island, a sanctuary for migratory birds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Locals recount the island’s past and narrate the present. While, a longtime bird watcher and author of Birds of Cebu and Bohol ...

Provides a biography of John James Audubon, including his youth, his struggles to resolve repeated business failures with an intense interest in wildlife painting, his decision to dedicate his life to his art and his eventual triumph in the publicati...

A wildlife documentary highlighting some of the 300-over species of birds that were native to Singapore. It also addressed the diminishing population of birds due to Singapore’s urbanisation....

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Short animation by Mati Kütt...

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Three birds struggle with life's challenges - each in their own way....

Animated East German short about a dissenting bird....

A child narrates this story of a robin family from early spring to late fall. Beautiful nature photography shows the fledglings born and growing up, the robins' daily habits and seasonal activities....

This film documents the yearly cycle of the great blue heron, its migration from Central America and the West Indies to the St. Lawrence River in Québec, and the breeding and rearing of its young. Outstanding footage shot by the filmmaker perched hig...

Broken Wings is the story of a one-winged American black vulture named Adonis, and the two women in his life: Jayne, a charismatic waitress who has fed him every day for 10 years, and Ann, her spiritually-minded roommate....

A short film based on the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who hopelessly fell in love with a concrete statue. His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love. MA Graduation fi...