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  1. Bird Traffic (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale (video only - RSPB Film & Video Unit), Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £8.15 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Examines the international wild bird trade, showing wild birds trapped in their natural habitats in South America, Africa and Asia and transported to Europe. Looks at the resulting threat of extinction for...

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  2. Mud Matters (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Jeffery Boswall
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Hire (c/o Educational Distribution serivce) Sale (video only - RSPB Film & Video Unit), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 1997 sale: £8.15 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Shows the importance of Britain’s estuaries for as many as 20 species of bird. That they are endangered may spell disaster for the two million ducks, geese and wading shore birds which depend on them for...

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  3. Talons! (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    David Leighton
    Producer
    John Tomkins
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows specific behavioural aspects of individual British birds of prey and demonstrates their success as predators. Birds shown in action include the golden eagle, peregrine falcon, buzzard, kestrel,...

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  4. Seabirds (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    David Urry
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of how the hundreds of thousands of seabirds that throng the coasts of Britain in the breeding season have adapted to survive in a somewhat harsh environment. Ends with a brief plea for the...

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  5. Concerning Swans (1984 Video)

    Director
    David Urry; Katie Urry
    Producer
    John Tomkins
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale (video only - RSPB Film & Video Unit), Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1997 sale: £8.15 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Shows the beauty and serene majesty of swans: whooper and Bewick’s swans in winter; mute swans courting and nest building in spring; cygnets; the swannery at Abbotsbury, the only surviving managed colony...

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  6. Osprey (1979 Film, Video)

    Director
    Hugh Miles
    Producer
    John Tomkins
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Robert Powell tells how, for nearly 50 years, the shrill cry of the osprey was not heard in Scotland. The birds returned in the 1950s and have arrived each year since then to build their enormous eyries, to...

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  7. Look Again at Gulls (1975 Film, Video)

    Director
    Anthony Clay
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Identifies the main British species of gull: kittewakes, greater black-backed, lesser black-backed, herring, common and black-headed gulls. Shows how by adaptability and versatility they profit from man, and...

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  8. Speckle and Hide (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Hugh Miles
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A film about visual deception - the way camouflage is used by predators to conceal themselves from prey, and by prey from preditors. With cunning and with camouflage, by colour or design, shape or posture,...

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  9. Flight for Survival: The Migration of Birds (1975 Film, Video)

    Director
    Hugh Miles
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows what happens to birds when they migrate to and from Britain and other parts of Europe. Follows the migration of the Arctic tern, sanderlings and swallows and other European species and shows some of...

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  10. Where Eagles Fly (1984 Film, Video)

    Producer
    John Tomkins
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of the golden eagle in Scotland, showing physical features and behaviour and, as winter ends, nest building at the eagles’ chosen cliff site. Sequences show incubation, hatching, feeding of young,...

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