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This film tells the story of the world’s rarest wading bird, the black stilt (kakī). With its precise beak and long pink legs the stilt is superbly adapted to the stony braided riverbeads of the McKenzie Country, but it is tragically unable to deal with new threats (rats, ferrets, habitat loss). An early doco for TVNZ’s Natural History Unit, the magnificently filmed drama of the stilt’s struggle for survival makes it “stand out as a classic of its genre” (Russell Campbell). It won the Gold Award at New York’s International Film & TV Festival (1984).
Many nature films transport us into a realm of enhanced vision. With their suberb technology of telephoto lenses, of macrocinematography, microcinematography, time lapse filming, underwater and aerial filming, they supplant our own eyes, offering ...
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Television, 1980 (Full Length)
Another dramatic rare bird story directed by Rod Morris
Television, 2001 (Full Length)
Another award-winning natural history story directed by Rod Morris
Television, 1990
A natural history series presented by David Bellamy with many of the same crew onboard
1984 International Film & TV Festival of New York
Gold Award for Wildlife Programs
Finalist - Most
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A. B. Clark
Posted at 08.51PM - 10.10.2010
As a visiting ecologist who WON'T get to see this bird, this short film is a delight to find, with nice long clips of behaviors.