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TERRA 515: Big Horned on Campus 9:40mins | 2009-05-24 | Produced by: Elliot Kennerson
For almost two decades, great horned owls roosted on a high building at the center of the Montana State University campus every summer. "Big Horned on Campus" documents the owls' last season on the ledges of Leon Johnson Hall, where they successfully raised a pair of chicks and became a fascination to their human neighbors. Raptor biologist Dave Willey narrates this whimsical but inform...More


TERRA 510: On the Wing PART FOUR 16:36mins | 2009-04-10 | Produced by: Dan Viens
ON THE WING is a new documentary which tells the story of Portland, Oregon's Chapman Swifts. Each fall these birds roost in the chimney of a Portland elementary school and put on an amazing nightly aerial display to the delight of hundreds and thousands of observers. The event has become a cult phenomenon over the past 15 years an...More


TERRA 509: On the Wing PART THREE 13:05mins | 2009-04-03 | Produced by: Dan Viens
ON THE WING is a new documentary which tells the story of Portland, Oregon's Chapman Swifts. Each fall these birds roost in the chimney of a Portland elementary school and put on an amazing nightly aerial display to the delight of hundreds and thousands of observers. The event has become a cult phenomenon over the past 15 years an...More


TERRA 508: On the Wing PART TWO 17:32mins | 2009-03-26 | Produced by: Dan Viens
ON THE WING is a new documentary which tells the story of Portland, Oregon's Chapman Swifts. Each fall these birds roost in the chimney of a Portland elementary school and put on an amazing nightly aerial display to the delight of hundreds and thousands of observers. The event has become a cult phenomenon over the past 15 years an...More


TERRA 507: On the Wing PART ONE 20:05mins | 2009-03-20 | Produced by: Dan Viens
ON THE WING is a new documentary which tells the story of Portland, Oregon's Chapman Swifts. Each fall these birds roost in the chimney of a Portland elementary school and put on an amazing nightly aerial display to the delight of hundreds and thousands of observers. The event has become a cult phenomenon over the past 15 years an...More


TERRA 456: The Flying Dustbin PART TWO 12:05mins | 2008-12-05 | Produced by: Raymond Besant
The Flying Dustbin is the success story of the Fulmar, a seabird which numbers 500,000 pairs in the UK but was virtually unknown as a breeding species at the turn of the last century. The film documents the reasons for its success, but is also a warning. The Fulmar faces some very serious modern problems, 9 out of 10 Fulmars in the North Sea have plastic in their stomachs whilst global warming is ...More


TERRA 422: White Wings Over Montana 12:07mins | 2008-04-03 | Produced by: Dawson Dunning
Every spring thousands of snow geese migrate along the Rocky Mountain Front en route to their arctic breeding grounds. One of their primary stopover points is Freezeout Lake in northern Montana. Likewise, people flock from all over Montana to witness the spectacle of one of the most amazing migrations of any animal in North America!...More


TERRA 343: Wetlands in the Bitterroots 11:35mins | 2007-10-03 | Produced by: Roberts, Jeremy
Years ago, back on the farm in Mississippi, a wetlands was just an area of pasture that was too swampy to grow hay or graze cattle. Little did I know back then that wetlands are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth, and worthy of our preservation and amazement. Montana's Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge is a great example of a wetlands that is managed for the benefit of people and wildlife...More


TERRA 316: Kis-Ka-DEE PART TWO 11:23mins | 2007-03-26 | Produced by: Ryan Fitzgibbons
Who will win the "Outta Sight" birding tournament? Will it be "Team Palomas," "Team Caracaras," or "Team Tweety Birds?" Sometimes, when one sense is lost, another is gained. What that sense is, exactly, is not heard or seen or even described - it is felt. And it is experienced most powerfully through the healing connection to the wild and natural world. ...More


TERRA 315: Kis-Ka-DEE PART ONE 9:14mins | 2007-03-20 | Produced by: Ryan Fitzgibbons
Every year, a small group of birders gather in Southeastern Texas for the "Outta Sight" birding tournament. The team to identify the most species wins . . . and, oh yeah, you can't use your eyes....More


TERRA 229: Ten Days to Paint the Forest PART THREE 8:03mins | 2006-08-16 | Produced by: Kemp, Richard and Julia
PART THREE of "TEN DAYS TO PAINT THE FOREST" - Artists continue a rapid biological inventory of the S. American high-altitude dry forest....More


TERRA 221: Where the Wild Parrots Are 10:12mins | 2006-06-27 | Produced by: Bendick, Eric
"The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" ignited a wave of enthusiasm around the nation and went on to become an incredible box office success. The creator of the film, Judy Irving, and one of its most vocal and colorful subjects, Mark Bittner, comment on the success of their production. The parrots represent San Francisco's untamed backyard. Does every community have its own "wild&qu...More


TERRA 211: Survivors in Paradise PART TWO 15:16mins | 2006-04-24 | Produced by: Bard, Susanne
In 1826, the first mosquitoes arrived in Hawaii aboard a whaling ship. Learn how they spread avian malaria to native birds, accelerating extinction in this already imperiled ecosystem, and join scientists as they learn how one species is bucking the extinction trend through evolution. History, island biogeography and genetics converge as the Amakihi, a native honeycreeper, mysteriously re-populate...More


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