Should you watch Winged Migration?
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Winged Migration
Documentary · 2001
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of miles and navigating by the stars. These arduous treks are crucial for survival, seeking hospitable climates and food sources. Birds face numerous challenges, including crossing oceans and evading predators, illness, and injury. Although migrations are undertaken as a community, birds disperse into family units once they reach their destinations, and every continent is affected by these migrations, hosting migratory bird species at least part of the year.
The sides of Winged Migration
- Birds filmed in flight up close
- Journeys across oceans and the Arctic
- Storks, pelicans and cranes
Winged Migration is good for you if…
- you like following migrating birds over every continent.
- you like flying wing to wing with geese above the clouds.
- you like images shot so close you can see each feather move in flight.
Winged Migration is bad for you if…
- you need a story with momentum, not long flights.
- you'd rather hear only the birds than a sweeping score and songs over them.
About: migration · survival · the earth
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