Bat City USA is a compelling documentary about how a city overcame its fear of one of the world's most misunderstood creatures and now heartily embraces them, largely thanks to the efforts of one man.. A giant colony of Mexican Free-tailed bats moved into an Austin, Texas bridge in the 1980’s after a reconstruction project created an ideal roosting habitat. The “bat invasion” launched a media hoopla and alarm among residents worried about bat...

The ostrich, the emu, and the rhea-together with the kiwi and the cassowary-are the court jesters of the avian world, because they can't do the one thing that birds are famous for doing. They can't fly. But exactly how, and why did these birds abandon flight? It's been one of the natural world's great mysteries. And now DNA is promising to give us the answer..

The population of many migratory songbirds is on the decline, but many dedicated people are trying to save them, including researchers who employ creative means to assess the health of bird populations, and school children in Vermont who are trying to help re-forest the mountains of Costa Rica, and Costa Rican coffee farmers practicing bird-friendly methods of cultivation and processing..

From the award-winning team that brought us “EARTHflight” and “Penguins: Spy in the Huddle” comes a revolutionary look at our pets. Our pets may seem familiar but they exist alongside us in a secret world of wild behavior and natural abilities that we hardly recognize. This two-part series explores this parallel existence with all the techniques that have been perfected in past “spy” shows, including HD spy cameras, night vision cameras,...

The second of a two-part series, Secretive Creatures looks into how our pets experience their world through hidden channels of communication revealed with ultra slow-motion, photography that makes smells visible, X-rays that reveal hidden powers, and ultraviolet light that brings out the best in birds..

Su Rynard’s wide-ranging and contemplative documentary THE MESSENGER explores our deep-seated connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey to the streets of New York, THE MESSENGER brings us face-to-face with a remarkable variety of human-made perils that have devastated thrushes, warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks...

Journey to the North American fields and meadows that are home to grassland birds. Host Willem Lange talks to those in the United States, Canada, and Mexico who are concerned about the birds' decline, and are trying to reverse this trend..

Ironically, every dead elephant with its ivory intact is a reason to celebrate. It means an elephant died of natural causes, and a soul was celebrated and mourned by its herd. Award-winning filmmakers, Dereck and Beverly Joubert start with the remains of two bull elephants and through a series of key flashbacks, look at the lives they would have led..

Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to far eastern Russia, in search of the Siberian tigers that hold rank in the frozen forests. The film features the work of Korean cameraman Sooyong Park, the first individual ever to film Siberian tigers in the wild. Park spent years in the forest tracking and filming the world’s biggest cat.. Park’s tracking technique was unconventional, but produced more than a thousand hours of wild tiger footage and captured...

Los Psittaciformes ocupan un lugar importante en los ecosistemas y han existido de alguna forma desde el Eoceno medio. Debido a la exposición a factores ambientales diferentes a los de su medio y al manejo inadecuado en cautividad, estas aves son propensas a desarrollar anormalidades que pueden comprometer su vida y su bienestar. Esto hace indispensable una formación integral del médico veterinario en todas las aristas concernientes al tratamiento...