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Our goal is to film all the birds of the US and Canada to make a series of guides for birders, filled with color, song and behavior. We've finished three groups - Warblers, Sparrows and Long-legged Waders, and we're working hard to find and film the rest of them. We're also doing a new internet show called Little Nature Show. Lots of birds, but also branching out to invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, insects and even plants. There's a lot of nature in this world! |
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Filmmakers Michael Male and Judy Fieth film a Lapland Longspur in the Yukon Territory. |
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We've been working together on natural history films since 1980, when we met in New York City, just out of college, while working as freelance crew on TV documentaries and commercials. We started filming birds for a "video guide" back when VCRs were first making an appearance. We have always used 16mm film. Our film footage can always be transferred to the latest of the ever-changing video formats - even high definition, but what a HUGE drain on the resources! 50 cents a second! In 2008, we made the transition to shooting digital high-definition and we expect to pick up the pace with no more film and processing to pay for! For the first ten years, we concentrated on warblers, filming a few here and there between jobs that paid the bills. We started with this difficult group in 1985 because some people told us we'd never be able to get them all and we're really ornery. Thanks to their challenges, by 1995, we had all the Eastern species in the can and were able to finish "Watching Warblers." Its success has allowed us to devote more time to bird projects. "Watching Waders" only took us three years - and three years to film both "Watching Sparrows" and "Watching Warblers West." Whew! At this rate... Meanwhile, to pay the bills, we've been making movies for National Geographic, PBS, BirdSight, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. We've also contributed to several of the great series that David Attenborough and the BBC Natural History Unit have produced - "Planet Earth," "The Life of Birds," "The Life of Mammals," "Blue Planet," and "Journey of Life." In 2007, we worked with some charming reptiles and amphibians for "Life in Cold Blood." 2008 took us to Delaware Bay to film shorebirds and horseshoe crabs for the upcoming BBC series "Life." Now we're working on "Watching Waterfowl" and "Watching Shorebirds" but being the obsessive types that we are, this will take a while.... Meanwhile, check out our new internet show - The Little Nature Show. We're really excited about this project because it will allow us to get some work out there to the world without taking our usual FIVE YEARS. If you click some of the pictures on this page, windows will open with more of our story! |
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