2007-09-20 05:54:20 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Daydream
2007-09-21 00:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by † Iríšh † 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Flag
2007-09-20 05:56:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm going with Phil, A Flag.
2007-09-20 05:58:56 · answer #3 · answered by mlud12000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The kiwi is one of the rarest
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links and shiest birds in the world. It only comes out to feed by nights in remote parts of New Zealand. So how did the BBC manage to film it so candidly for "The Life of Birds?"
Series producer Mike Salisbury takes up the story. It proves the value of the assiduous "reccy" or reconnoitre trip, the many months spent in research before an inch of film was shot.
Mr Salisbury went to New Zealand determined to find a good location in which to film the unique bird. "After a month I had still not found anywhere. The kiwi is the national symbol, but even the Department of Conservation said it would be so hard to find we might have to film tame birds. I told them wherever possible our policy was to film birds in the wild, behaving naturally." Eventually Mr Salisbury met a man in a bar in Invercargill, on the southermost tip of New Zealand, who told him kiwis could be seen on Stewart Island off the south coast. He took the ferry, booked into the hotel and asked around. He was directed to local man Philip Smith who took him out that night in his boat, around a headland to a secluded beach.
"We crouched down on the sand and, just as the moon rose, out of the forest came two kiwis to feed on sand hoppers along the tide line. It was a magical moment. We wrote this scene into the script and returned the following year to film the perfect sequence with Sir David Attenborough." [It features in the last part of the first program.] They used the Starlight camera (so sensitive that, as the name suggests, it only needs starlight to operate).
"The Life of Birds" took three years to make at a cost of $15 million. Sir David Attenborough travelled 256,000 miles during filming - 10 times round the Earth. The production employed 48 cameramen and camerawomen, many of them battle-hardened veterans of overseas wildlife filming, working in 42 countries on five continents. They used up 200 miles of film on 300 bird subjects.
The kiwi filmed by starlight camera
They applied the latest techniques of ultra-slow motion filming, night vision cameras and tiny cameras that film inside nests, allied to plain old-fashioned field craft, to bring in footage of some of the world's rarest birds and examples of remarkable avian behaviour never filmed before. The few failures were greatly outnumbered by many spectacular filming successes.
2007-09-20 06:52:26 · answer #4 · answered by sajmir 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of those bird toys that fly in circles. LOL!
2007-09-20 05:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by LEMON the good life 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A caged parrot
2007-09-20 06:09:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bumbling bee.
2007-09-20 05:57:34 · answer #7 · answered by Ginny Jin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
richard branson in a hot air balloon
2007-09-20 22:41:43 · answer #8 · answered by majoti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time!!!
2007-09-20 06:15:45 · answer #9 · answered by ♥~Onyx~♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A flag, i guess. hey i sure like your avatar one fine picture.
2007-09-20 06:04:11 · answer #10 · answered by skunk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋