Bird Movies

In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi...

This short documentary includes three vignettes about life off the coast of Newfoundland. In Island of Birds, we visit Green Island, a sea bird...

Imagine a flightless bird weighing in at over 1,000 pounds. Envision another flightless bird standing taller than 13 feet. Each of these creatures...

BEK (Beak) is a tale about a girl who is born with wings instead of arms and a beak where a mouth should be. Unlike a real bird though, she cannot...

In 1890, one man had the idea to collect every bird ever mentioned in Shakespeare and release them into Central Park. The only bird to survive in the...

Hokkaido in Japan’s far north is a paradise for wild birds. Some endangered species of large birds in Hokkaido have benefited from conservation...

The Common Ring-Necked Pheasants of Cornwall erupt into a medley of sonic sensations.

Owls are remarkable, highly resourceful birds that have carved out a unique way to live. They have colonized terrains from tundra to rain forest and...

An eider duck defend her nest and eggs agains sea gulls

The world's last kakapo population is plagued by a deadly curse. Without a cure, it could be the end of the world's rarest and strangest wild parrot.

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

Bird lover?, tired after a hard day?, sit down, grab a drink, put your ear buds on and relax. Sixty species of birds in wetlands and forests, no...

A colony of puffins laze about on the Cornish shore.

Documentary about finches of the Galápagos Islands.

Colorful puffins, which pop in and out of underground burrows they've dug in an islands' meager soil; the slender, graceful Arctic terns, which make...

short film by Guy Sherwin

Two disk documentary presented by Oregon Public Broadcasting about the birds of Oregon. Disk one is an overview of bird species. Disk two is an...

The eagle is widely regarded “the Queen of the skies”. But what makes the Eagle the Queen of the Sky? Well, a National Geographic...

Depiction of the bird life at Lake Tåkern.

Half of the species of Hummingbirds of Costa Rica assembled with direct sounds, comments on varied features of the birds, leading to their...