Birds of a Feather

Spread your wings and take flight on an avian adventure with some of our favorite feathered friends.

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    • 2 episodes
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    New discoveries of dinosaur fossils are completely changing what we know about the animals that lived on our planet millions of years ago.

    • 55m

    In this award-winning film, David Attenborough narrates this close up look at these tiny pollinators captured in flight as never before. Acrobats of the air - flying jewels - iridescent partners of countless plants: hummingbirds are amongst the most remarkable creatures on our planet.

    • 54m

    About 50 Amazon parrots live rough on Stuttgart's streets. They’re not built for the German winter- surviving there takes extraordinary adaptability. But, Stuttgart’s Amazons are far from unique. Parrots are appearing in cities all over the world…and they’re doing it in big numbers.

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    • 52m
    • 4K

    Giant birds once existed all around the world, yet none could fly! Go on a journey to far-off islands and discover the birds who lived alongside our ancestors.

    • 50m

    Aerial shots of mating Golden eagles, a fight between a Golden and a White-tailed eagle, and a close look into the nursery of these birds combined make a spectacular film. This documentary gives an intimate portrait of this large predatory bird.

    • 52m

    Featuring spectacular pictures of the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where sea eagles “piggyback” on the catches of orcas and hunchbacks and pictures of the swamps of Finland, where they enjoy a similar symbiotic relationship with wolves and bears, the film casts a gaze at uncharted territories

    • 48m

    Imagine if all waste just lay where it fell. We’d all be drowning in feces rotting plants and animal corpses, were it not for the cleanup crew. Often unfairly despised, we should see these animals, crabs, dung beetles, vultures and crows as our heroes, keeping us safe from diseases.

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    • 6 episodes

    When science and film team-up to explore the Einsteins of the oceans.