Films by Petra Höfer

2016, 90 min
by Petra Höfer, Freddie Röckenhaus

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 Afric