# Video footage of birds in flight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825 "2004-03-01T01:31:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825/1 "2004-03-01T01:31:55Z")

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I’m looking for some online resources showing birds in flight - either as a series of frames, or as video clips - does anyone know of such a resource?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825/2 "2004-03-01T01:41:35Z")

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You can get hours and hours of birds in flight from stock video suppliers, but you’ll have to pay for them.

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**Author:** ![netscape\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825/3 "2004-03-01T06:32:35Z")

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I’d check a p2p network like gnutella. I have a bunch of clips of areospace development at NASA that way.

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**Author:** ![netscape\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825/4 "2004-03-01T06:34:56Z")

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Oh and I’d just like to state they are all to best of my knowledge filmed by NASA and therefor one would hope public domain.

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**Author:** ![Flying\_Monk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@Flying\_Monk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flying_Monk)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825/5 "2004-03-01T12:13:07Z")

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Have you seen Winged Migration?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-footage-of-birds-in-flight/231825/6 "2004-03-01T13:14:22Z")

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I also recommend [Winged Migration](http://www.operationmigration.org/merch.html), it has lots of footage of geese and whooping cranes filmed in flight from ultralights and helicopters.