Original air date: 28 October 1998
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Osprey’s toil becomes easy, by streamlining the catch
On the left the osprey can hardly lift the fish from the surface (8’15), but by streamlining the catch flying becomes very easy (8’35).
Coming up:
“… Flying, when all is said and done, takes a great deal of energy. So birds have huge appetites and have to spend much of their lives in an unending search for food to fuel their expensive lifestyle. Just how they find it, we will be looking at in the next programme in The Life of Birds”.