david attenboroughs life of birds q

[flano1]

so my google-fu has deserted me.

i simply need to find out which episode of david attenborough's life of birds

features the puffins being attacked by a black backed gull.

mods please move if i've jumped into the wrong place.

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

You've probably already seen this wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Birds) on the series, but it's a free bump. It's fairly detailed, but doesn't make any mention of either gulls or puffins, but maybe something in a description will trigger your memory.

[araminty]

Is this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8BfVvtGPQ) the footage you mean? It is from Blue Planet, not Life of Birds.

[flano1]

thanks for the links.

no, that's not the footage.

the bit i'm looking for concerns puffins somewhere in scotland wheeling to confuse
a blackbacked gull until one misjudges the spiral and becomes separated and is swooped and plucked. scared the crap out of my six year old son at the time.

i may even be misremembering the series, but it certainly was david attenborough.

[samclem]

Moving this from General Questions to Cafe Society.

samclem Moderator, GQ

[fortytwo]

I think it was the Trials of Life series.

[Boulter's Canary]

I think it was the Trials of Life series.

It was - episode four: Hunting and Escaping:

Below are headings from a study guide to the series:

As we move up the food chain, there are increasingly violent ways of obtaining food. They include:

* puffins being hunted by the greater backed gull on the Shetlands
* South American sea lions being hunted by orcas who can beach themselves intentionally on the shores of Patagonia
* slugs being hunted by a thirst snake
* frog defending itself from opossum
* various ways of preventing oneself from being eaten - tomato frog, spotted skunk, salamanders
* various insects camouflaging themselves - as means of defence or as a hunting strategy
* an ant colony
* chimpanzees hunting colobus monkeys using a complex team strategy

[flano1]

thank you thank you