Anybody watching this? It's a series that has been on PBS on Sunday night.

Last week was about flight, tonight it was about fruit & seed eaters, next week it's about meat eaters.

Here are the programs

Finding Partners
Extraordinary and bizarrely beautiful bird-mating rituals play a crucial part in the business of attracting and keeping a mate.

Signals and Songs
Bird communication – through beautiful songs and extraordinary patterns of color – makes everything possible, from deterring predators and intimidating rivals to impressing potential mates. There's an owl that can expertly camouflage itself against the bark of a tree to avoid discovery, a bird family that raises the feathers on their heads as they greet each other, and a multi-vocal bird that can imitate sounds ranging from a the click of a camera shutter to the sound of a chainsaw. With their varied methods of survival and communication, these birds show how it takes a little creativity and at times quick thinking to overcome obstacles to the best of their ability.

Fishing for a Living
The Earth's large areas of fresh and salt water provide a vast buffet for millions of birds, from humble filter-feeders to majestic fish- eagles. No other group of animals living out of the water has developed a wider range of techniques or tools to collect food than birds.

Meat-Eaters
Flesh is a rich source of energy, but hunters and scavengers alike must use incredible strategy and skill to compete for their elusive prey. Dramatic footage of carnivorous birds, from the kea, a surprising meat-eating parrot in New Zealand, to massive eagles in Africa that catch monkeys and flamingos, shows the strategies and senses that birds employ to find and catch their prey.

The Insatiable Appetite
Birds have developed an amazing range of bill shapes and sizes designed to hammer out grubs from trees, pry tiny seeds from fruits and sip nectar from flowers. If their bills and tongues can't reach what they're seeking, some birds even use tools to help them get a meal.

The Mastery of Flight
Speed, endurance and unrivaled agility are the hallmarks of these aces of the skies, but what are the secrets of their aeronautical skill?

To Fly or Not to Fly?
Using state-of-the-art computer animation, Attenborough takes viewers back through time to show how birds evolved from the dinosaurs and took to the air. Today, flightless birds survive, but they have to be large enough, like the fleet-footed ostrich, to defend themselves or live on isolated islands devoid of mammal predators.


Here's the link to the site The Life of Birds


Check your TV schedules for dates & times......it's outstanding, and I'm sure the whole thing will be repeated in Oct.