Media Release
For Immediate Release
David Attenborough’s
THE LIFE OF BIRDS
Now available on DVD!
David
Attenborough’s landmark series The Life of Birds is now available for the
first time on DVD in a beautifully packaged box set containing three DVDs.
This magnificent production celebrates the incredible
variety of some of the world’s best-loved creatures in a visual format that is
state-of-the-art. Marvel at the brilliant colour and sound as David Attenborough takes us
around the world to observe some of the most fascinating animals on the planet.
"It is easy to understand why so many of us
are so fond of birds. They are lively; they are lovely; they are everywhere. They have
characters with which we can easily identify - cheeky and shy, gentle and vicious,
faithful - and faithless."
During the three years of filming, David Attenborough
visited 42 countries, travelling 256,000 miles by air – the equivalent of 10 times
around the earth or one trip to the moon! In The Life of Birds we see birds’
remarkable strategies for finding food; their ingenious and often bizarre ways of mating;
the world’s rarest and most beautiful airborne species - at work and at play
David Attenborough goes to amazing lengths to see
birds in their natural environments – in a glider he flies like a bird over the
Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho and in Venezuela he is filmed, using infra-red cameras, among
a 10,000 strong nesting colony of oilbirds with the only animal he fears – rats.
The Life of Birds Box Set is available from
ABC Shops, ABC Centres and video retailers from 4 June 2001. |
