Migrating Birds

by Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus
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    Synopsis

    Billions of birds perish every year while migrating, dying of hunger, thirst, exhaustion and environmental poisons. Others fall victim to hunters, windmills and power lines. Predators attack them in the air and while they’re sleeping. Why do birds then go through the hardships of migration every year? How has bird migration changed over the generations? How do barnacle geese find their way from the River Ems in northern Germany to the Arctic Circle?
    How does a young stork know how to get to Africa, who was never there before?
    A road movie about the journey of our migrating birds and about the latest research on every movement of their flight: from energy consumption to environmental changes. Breathtaking aerials from the inventors of the bird’s eye perspective, our scouts to distant worlds.

    Festivals

    2017
    Heinz Sielmann Film Award
    Best Science Film

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus

    Editor

    Johannes Fritsche

    DoP

    Tobias Kaufmann, Peter Thompson

    Narrator

    Dietmar Wunder

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