Birds

This Collection of Bird Films Highlights Our Avian Connections

This Playlist is for the birds…literally! Are you a bird watcher or amateur ornithologist? Got a favorite bird? There’s a good chance we’ve screened a film about it during the past 30+ years. Recent editions of DCEFF have featured stories about honeycreepers, parrots, hawks, eagles, bluebirds, cranes, penguins, and more! Scroll down to begin streaming some of these great films!

Heart of Maui

Festival Year: 2023

Follows two biologists working to save rare and endemic forest birds in Haleakalā (Maui’s national park).

David Ehrenberg | US | 8 min.

Parrots in Peril: Miami’s Wild Macaws

Festival Year: 2019

Parrot lover and conservationist Daria Feinstein is on a mission to protect one of Miami’s most spectacular wild residents: the blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)

Neil Losin & Nathan Dappen | US | 8 min.

Bird of Prey

Festival Year: 2018

In 1977, world-renowned cinematographer Neil Rettig filmed the first images of the Philippine Eagle in the wild, transforming the bird into a national symbol. But today, with a rapidly expanding political, economic, and environmental turmoil, the eagle’s plight has fallen out of public consciousness.

Eric Liner | US | 95 min.

Yochi

Festival Year: 2018

Yochi, a 9-year-old selectively non-verbal Mayan boy, guards a nest of endangered Yellow-Headed Parrots in Belize’s pine savannah.

Ilana Lapid & Kristi Drexler | US | 25 min.

Bluebird Man

Festival Year: 2016

The story of nonagenarian Al Larson, a self-taught conservationist who has committed the last 40 years of his life to recovering North America’s bluebirds.

Neil Paprocki & Matthew Podolsky | US | 28 min.