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North America

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Documentary giving a bird's-eye view of some of the world's natural spectacles. This episode takes flight across North America, as snow geese fall prey to bald eagles.

Take a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experience some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.

Fly across North America and become part of a flock of millions of snow geese as they discover what it's like to be on the hit list of America's national bird: the bald eagle. Glide under San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with pelicans and experience the sensation of being on the back of a bird as you are flown through Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon and New York.

In California, pelicans reveal devil rays that perform astonishing somersaults and find bizarre grunion fish that wriggle ashore to spawn. In Alaska, bald eagles swoop among brown bears fishing for salmon. On the Great Plains, cowbirds duck and dive under the feet of fighting bison.

As we see the world through the eyes of birds, egrets show us the extraordinary habits of dolphins that strand themselves to feed, millions of shorebirds rendezvous with prehistoric creatures emerging from the sea, and gulls take us to Mono Lake, where they catch flies by chasing them with open mouths.

The dream of flying like a bird is nothing compared to the extraordinary reality.

59 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 Sep 2017 16:15

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Credits

Role Contributor
Narrator David Tennant
Producer Robert Pilley
Series Producer John Downer

Broadcasts

  • Thu 29 Dec 2011 20:00
  • Tue 10 Jan 2012 19:00
  • Sun 15 Jan 2012 18:00
  • Thu 27 Dec 2012 19:00
  • Sun 16 Jun 2013 17:35
  • Boxing Day 2013 09:35
  • Mon 8 Jun 2015 14:50
  • Tue 18 Oct 2016 16:15
  • Fri 22 Sep 2017 16:15