Subject: Winged Migration
Date: Jul 18 08:12:44 2003
From: John C. Withey - jwithey at u.washington.edu


I also enjoyed the film very much. I found the depictions of different
places perhaps revealing of the filmakers' bias - Eastern Europe: dark and
dirty, North America: full of hunters, Paris: city of lights :)

John
U. District, Seattle


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Joanne wrote:

> I went to see this wonderful film at the beginning of the month. There
> is very little specific information given, it is almost entirely shots
> of migrating birds, primarily larger birds such as geese and swans.
> They do correctly identify many of the birds and the lengths of their
> migrations. There are some misleading shots where they are showing
> birds in breeding plumage during a section of the movie depicting
> migration that occurs when the birds are not in breeding plumage. Other
> than that "artistic license", the shots are very good. I greatly
> recommend the movie to everyone who loves to see birds in motion.
> -Joanne Schmitt
> Sequim, WA
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