Birds

Bird Stories

Every bird here has a full story on the channel and a species page with real facts and named sources. The birds and their stories are fiction; the species, their territories and their threats are real. The newest story comes first.

Birds · Glayu

Eurasian Jay

He lowers his head and drives a single acorn into the soil, then pulls a dead leaf across it. He will do this thousands of times before the autumn ends.
Video 12:25
Birds · Sombra

Cinereous Vulture

Wings almost three metres across, and a body too heavy to lift them off the ground.
Video 8:01
Birds · Argayu

Griffon Vulture

Nothing touched him. No wound, no fight, no fall. And a griffon vulture that could not leave the ground.
Video 8:01
Birds · Tirso

Woodchat Shrike

A snake in the dry grass, and a small hunter too weak to be a hunter any more.
Video 8:01
Birds · Cierzo

Bearded Vulture

By the time the cold reached the nest, he was already on the ground. Two hundred metres below the only chick he could no longer reach.
Video 8:01
Birds · Bruma

Cantabrian Capercaillie

By the time the storm broke over the mountain, her chicks were only a day old.
Video 8:07
Birds · Cima

Spanish Imperial Eagle

By the time the man found him, the young eagle had already lost the sky.
Video 6:23
Birds · Brasa

European Bee-Eater

He arrived ahead of everyone. Then the cold came back, and there was no flock to sit inside.
Video 8:03