Birds owe their global success to their feathers - something no other animal has that allows them to do truly remarkable things. For the first time, a slow-motion camera captures the unique flight of the Marvellous Spatuletail Hummingbird as he flashes long, iridescent tail feathers in the gloomy undergrowth. Aerial photography takes us into the sky with an Ethiopian Lammergeier, dropping bones to smash them into edible-sized portions, while thousands of pink flamingos promenade in one of nature's greatest spectacles.

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2009. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 21, 2019.