Brad Harris ha 36 anni, è divorziato e vive con i genitori. Se la madre lo sostiene nella sua passione per il bird watching il padre costituisce un ostacolo. Brad però ha un idolo: Kenny Bostick, che ha vinto la competizione denominata "The Big Year", una gara che consiste nel riuscire, nell'arco di un anno, a vedere il maggior numero di specie di uccelli. Bostick, che ne ha individuati più di 700, teme che il suo record possa essere battuto e torna a competere nonostante il parere contrario della moglie. Oltre alle sue imprese e a quelle di Brad, che ha vinto le resistenze paterne, seguiamo in azione Sturat Preissler, un non più giovanissimo executive che trova la scusa del Big Year per cercare di staccare da un lavoro che non lo interessa più.
Tomás, a birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino bird never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
David Portnoy, un 15enne fanatico di birdwatching, pensa di aver fatto la scoperta di una vita. Così, alla vigilia del nuovo matrimonio del padre, fugge per viaggio epico con i suoi migliori amici per consolidare il loro posto nella storia birdwatching.
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful species.
With narration from Paul McGann, this ground-breaking film sets out to solve one of nature's mysterious phenomena: the Bewick swan's dramatic decline. A pioneering group of scientists and conservationists sets out to discover why we have lost nearly half the Bewick population in the last twenty years. Every year, these majestic birds make one of the world's toughest migrations, across perilous land, sea and skies. Somewhere between the harsh Tundra landscape and the south of England lies the key to their disappearance. We join extreme sportswoman Sacha Dench and award-winning wildlife cameraman Benjamin Sadd, as they follow the swans over 7,000 km, on a journey that pushes both humans and swans to the limits of their endurance. Cutting-edge tracking techonology and innovative filming techniques give privileged insight into the birds' hidden world, providing stunning aerial views and the personal stories of swans, Charlotte, Daisy-Clarke and Leho.
Un breve ritratto audiovisivo su Giulio Nick Piacentini, giovane fonico con l'hobby per la fotografia naturalistica. Realizzato per il Laboratorio di Filmmaking al Dams di RomaTre a cura di Antonietta De Lillo.
Peter is a socially awkward young man, whose only responsibility is to walk his nine-year-old neighbour home from school - over the heaths and green hills of rural England. As he makes a new friend in an ageing birdwatcher, Peter finds himself ensnared in a knot he cannot untangle.
In 2016, Dutch birdwatcher Arjan Dwarshuis traveled the world to spot as many birds as possible in the span of one year, with the goal to break the big year world record (6042 species, set by Noah Strycker in 2015).
"The Winged Detectives" is a queer coming-of-age short film, which follows Reagan and her friends as they prepare for the annual bird-watching competition. Tensions quickly rise for Reagan with the introduction of potential new friends and the absence of a special team member.
Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-made peninsula extending four kilometres into the cold North Sea. Today, the industry it was built for has gone, but the Gare remains as a haven for all sorts of unexpected communities - kite-surfers, photographers, bird-watchers, scuba-divers and the people who simply appreciate its strange, lonely beauty.
A group of kids find interest in birdwatching.