Main content

The Limits of Endurance

Episode 10 of 10

David Attenborough presents a natural history of birds. This programme looks at how birds cope in some of the harshest places on the planet.

David Attenborough presents a natural history of birds. This programme looks at how birds cope with living in some of the harshest and most bizarre places on the planet, looking at the sandgrouse in the Namibian desert, spectacled eiders in the Arctic, a 10,000-strong nesting colony of oilbirds in a Venezuelan cave and black vultures nesting on the sixteenth floor balcony of a skyscraper in Sao Paulo.

Available now

49 minutes

Last on

Thu 20 Nov 2014 13:10
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two

More episodes

Previous

The Problem of Parenthood

Next

You are at the last episode

See all episodes from The Life of Birds

Clips

See all clips from The Limits of Endurance (7)

Credit

Presenter David Attenborough

Broadcasts

The challenges of life for birds, at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Nature

As birds are warm-blooded, their eggs have to be incubated, or the embryos will perish.