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Golden eagles patrol these cliffs in search of the weak or injured.  David Attenborough, Planet Earth e2: Mountains

 

 

A male blue bird of paradise is advertising for a mate.  It’s quite a performance.  But he is not the only bird of paradise here keen to make an impression.  There are nearly forty different kinds on the island of New Guinea.  David Attenborough, Planet Earth e8: Jungles e8

 

 

New York: This Peregrine Falcon looks down into an ideal habitat … A multitude of ledges on which falcons can nest … New York City has the highest density of nesting Peregrine Falcons anywhere on the planet.  David Attenborough, Planet Earth s2e6: Cities, BBC 2016

 

100,068.  Pigeons are by far the most successful urban bird.  ibid.  

 

 

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds I: To Fly or Not to Fly? BBC 1998

 

There are also small fury mammals  bats ... they’re flying out to catch their evening meal of insects ... Bats are latecomers to the skies.  ibid.

 

The ostrich is the biggest and heaviest bird alive today.  ibid.

 

Kiwi: Its tiny vestigial wings are invisible, buried in its plumage, and it's lost all sign of a tail.  ibid.

 

 

Getting into the air is not easy.  Indeed for many birds it’s by far the most exhausting bit of the whole business of flight.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds II: The Mastery of Flight

 

Pelicans give breathtaking displays of syncronised formation flying.  ibid.

 

A skeleton with fewer bones than a mammal’s.  ibid.

 

In the evenings a barn owl can waft over the countryside as silent as a moth.  ibid.

 

Hummingbirds: They beat routinely twenty-five times a second.  ibid.

 

 

Sap is an excellent food – energy rich and easily flicked up with the tongue.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds III: The Insatiable Appetite  

 

The sword-billed hummer – which has the longest beak in relation to its body of any bird in the world.  ibid.  

 

Crows are among the most intelligent of birds.  ibid.

 

 

No group of animals living out of water have developed a wider range of techniques and indeed tools for collecting that food than the birds.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds IV: Meat-Eaters

 

Boobies live on the coast, but their fishing grounds are way out in the open ocean.  ibid.

 

The Royal Albatross and the Wandering Albatross have the biggest wingspan of any living bird.  And they circle the globe in search of food.  ibid.

 

 

The great grey owl hunts in the Arctic ... The owl listens for its victims.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds V: Fishing for a Living

 

But there’s one bird that exceptionally has an extremely acute sense of smell ... Turkey vulture.  ibid.

 

 

Different kinds of hornbills paint themselves different colours.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds VI: Signals and Songs

 

All birds have good eyesight ... they have excellent colour vision.  ibid.

 

This is the most delectable of natural sounds: it’s an hour before dawn, it’s spring, this is an English woodland, and all around the dawn chorus.  ibid.

 

The most lyrical of all European songsters – the nightingale.  ibid.

 

The most elaborate, the most complex, the most beautiful song in the world ... the superb lyrebird of South Australia.  ibid.

 

 

The male streamertail ... shows off in front of her with a special courtship flight.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds VII: Finding Partners

 

Red-headed weavers in Africa often nest in colonies.  ibid.

 

New Guinea: A work of art: this is its creator: the Vogelkop bowerbird.  He has a passion for interior decoration ... Its beauty that wins her heart.  ibid.

 

What can rival the train of a peacock?  ibid.

 

Rheas: That’s unusual behaviour for a male – taking total responsibility for incubation and chick-rearing.  ibid.

 

 

Sooty terns: there is one thing that compels them to come down to earth: the demands of the egg.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds VIII: The Demands of the Egg

 

Sociable weaver: a large communal apartment block.  ibid.

 

 

Rosella [parrot] parents are scrupulously fair and they make quite sure that even the youngest gets its proper share of food.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds IX: The Problems of Parenthood

 

The storks like many birds are exemplary parents.  ibid.  

 

 

There is scarcely a corner of the globe that birds have not colonised.  David Attenborough, The Life of Birds X: The Limits of Endurance

 

City life may offer birds attractions that are rather less obvious than food.  ibid.

 

Thousands of starlings put on a spectacular display of formation flying over the darkening city.  ibid.

 

The last wild passenger pigeon was sighted in 1889.  ibid.

 

With skill and care and knowledge we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety.  ibid.

 

 

This is the marvellous Spatuletailed hummingbird.  And these are his flags with which to attract a mate ... It’s exhausting work.  It’s so demanding he can only stay airborne for a matter of seconds before he needs a rest.  David Attenborough, Life: Birds e5, BBC 2009

 

Flight gives birds many advantages: there’s a period in their lives when they are forced back down to Earth: the nesting season.  This is the time when they are at most risk.  ibid.

 

52,541.  Lesser Flamingos – they nest in the remotest corners of Africa’s caustic soda lakes.  ibid.

 

Few places are tougher than the Antarctic.  Chin-strapped penguins: every day they travel up to fifty miles out to sea hunting for krill.  But the hard part is getting this food back to the colony ... For a flightless bird getting to the top of the volcano is a gruelling climb ... Now she joins penguin rush hour ... She must try and find her family among a hundred and fifty thousand birds.  ibid.

 

Great white pelicans ... These pelicans are amongst the heaviest flying birds in the world.  ibid.

 

Cape gannets plunge deep, hunting fish beyond the reach of the pelicans.  ibid.

 

From the Equator to the Poles birds have found the most ingenious ways of overcoming the many challenges of life.  And everything revolves around their unique attribute: feathers.  ibid.  

 

 

Studies about gigantic birds had been circulating in Europe since the thirteenth century.  David Attenborough and the Giant Egg, 2011  

 

The Elephant Bird: beyond the legends what do we know of it?  ibid.

 

It is estimated that the Elephant Bird weighed half a ton ... The heaviest bird that ever existed.  And of course it was flightless.  ibid.

 

Eggs were a huge source of nourishment.  ibid.

 

 

China: the intriguing link between dinosaurs and birds.  David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates, BBC 2013

 

 

Short-tailed shearwaters have travelled ten thousand miles from Australia to be here.  Eighteen million visitors darken the skies, the largest gathering of sea-birds on the planet.  Humpback whales have come all the way from the Equator to feed in these rich polar waters.  David Attenborough, Frozen Planet I, BBC 2011

 

 

Albatross: the largest wingspan in the world.  David Attenborough, Frozen Planet II: Spring

 

 

Vast sea-bird colonies are the jewels of the Arctic.  David Attenborough, Frozen Planet IV: Autumn

 

  

These hundred-metre high cliffs are home to thousands of Guillemots.  David Attenborough, Frozen Planet VI: The Last Frontier

 

 

Waved Albatrosses are monogamous – they mate for life.  David Attenborough’s Galapagos: Adaptation, Sky 2013

 

 

The presence of human beings has stopped this Finch from evolving.  David Attenborough’s Galapagos: Evolution

 

 

5) The Marvellous Spatuletail Hummingbird: in a remote corner of Peru.  Attenborough’s Ark: Natural World Special, BBC 2012  

 

 

One predator they can never see coming: the bald-headed eagle. David Attenborough, Nature’s Great Events II: The Great Salmon Run, BBC 2009

 

 

There are birds which can dive.  David Attenborough, The Blue Planet V: Seasonal Seas, BBC 2001

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