Movies: Birds

Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from Cobh, Co. Cork is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland – that’s nearly 200 birds. Often joined by his partner Alba, he travels to some of the country’s most beautiful and remote locations t...

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In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi River. Audubon was also a gifted painter. His life’s work in the form of the classic book ‘Birds of Ame...

Courageous Cucumber travels and helps animals and birds....

This film documents the efforts of a group of Canadians and Americans to save the whooping crane from extinction. They display great determination in their dealings with this independent, pre-Ice Age creature. The issues of wild animals imprinting on...

On the North Yorkshire Moors, Abel, Head Gamekeeper, discovers the thing that is eating his grouse....

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Enrique learns the hard way, that actions speak louder than birds....

Provides, through onsite study and observations of a young biologist, an introduction to the life cycle and habitat of the blue heron. Shows its cycles of migration, reproduction and growth and obstacle to survival....

A greedy little blue jay carries away whatever his beak can grasp. Berries, birds' eggs (nests and all), and even the sun in the sky go into his secret cache....

Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love....

Some champion exhibits from the National Cat Club Show and the Combined Bird and Aquaria Show, described by W. Cox-Ife, F. Hopkins, and L.C. Mandeville....

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity....

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his exploration he certainly marvelled at seeing the great auks that have since disappeared from Isle aux Ouaiseaulx, the razor-bills and gannets that are gone...

Film produced as an opening short for the 2009 Annecy International Animation Film Festival (FIFA)....

Bird breeders talk about their great passion, bird singing competitions....

Four scenes each just over a minute long showing a collage of filmed owls placed on top of a scene from a British film of the 1940s (This Happy Breed, 1941). In each scene owls appear and disappear....

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Documentary about kookaburras...