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Our goal is to film all the birds of the US and Canada, and maybe, (if our backs hold out) even Mexico. It will be 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.
Filmmakers Michael Male and Judy Fieth film a Colima Warbler in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park. Click the image to play a short film.
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. This year, 2007, we're making the transition to shooting digital ultrahigh-definition and expect to pick up the pace with no more film and processing to pay for!
For the first ten years, we concentrated on warbers, 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. 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, 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." This year we're working on reptiles and amphibians for the upcoming "Life in Cold Blood." If you click some of the pictures on this page, windows will open with more of the story!
Each small image on this page will open a short movie in a window of its own if you click it. The movies download quickly with a high speed connection, but may be too large for dial-up connections.