Islands of the Vampire Birds

[DavidBrown]

While doing some background research on vampire finches I came across this documentary about the Galapagos Islands. It tells the story of Peter and Rosemary Grant's studies of natural selection in Darwin's finches in response to drought as a selective pressure. The photography of the islands and wildlife is superb. The narration is by David Attenborough at his grand Attenboroughiest. If you want to learn and SEE the Galapagos ecology and its wildlife, then I highly recommend this film.


Islands of the Vampire Birds _ Islands of the Vampire Birds - Video Dailymotion

 

[zooboy28]

I can't view that documentary here Its from BBC's Natural World series, and was broadcast in 1999.

I recently watched an excellent 2013 Attenborough documentary series called Galapagos (technically Galapagos 3D, but I didn't see it in 3D!), which I highly recommend. Have you seen this David?

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_3D]Galapagos 3D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[DavidBrown]

I haven't seen the new Galapagos documentary so thanks for pointing it out.

Maybe you can find another website with the older film? I just went to the first link that popped up when I googled it.

 

[zooboy28]

I haven't seen the new Galapagos documentary so thanks for pointing it out.

Maybe you can find another website with the older film? I just went to the first link that popped up when I googled it.

Among the highlights of that doco were some of the first shots of a new pink iguana species, and some of the last of the Pinta Island Galapagos Tortoise, i.e. Lonesome George, who died a fortnight after Attenborough was filmed with him.

I'll try to find another link, or change my IP to an American one. If that all fails I shall watch it when I go to America!