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Animals have evolved many different methods for obtaining oxygen from their environment. This programme explores the respiratory challenges of two organisms: the water-breathing crab and the air-breathing...
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...
Looks at how and why birds fly. Using remarkable new film techniques the audience is given a ‘bird’s eye’ view of the world. Shows a goose’s perpective of flying among clouds and what a fast-flying...
Looks at pioneering work into flapping flight of birds. In Bristol University for the first time accurate measurements are being made of lift and thrust of a bird in flight. In an experiment at Cranfield...
A long-term investigation into factors affecting the number of red grouse on Scottish heather moors. Dr Adam Watson of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, who has studied the grouse since 1956 describes...
A research student demonstrates the techniques he used to study the populations of tawny owls, ‘Strix aluco’, and the small rodents on which the owls feed in Wytham Wood near Oxford. The use of Longwort...
Slides shows the disease ‘Psittacosis ornithosis’.
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...
Describes the characteristics and behaviour of ‘Chlamydia psittaci’ and clinical signs of psittacosis in birds and man. The tape ends with an unscripted discussion between the two authors and other experts.
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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