Raptors

An insightful and spectacular celebration of birds of prey, our planet’s most successful hunters. From frozen wilderness to tangled jungle, this film reveals the raptors as never before. We meet giant eagles in Africa, miniature falconets in Borneo and snake-hunting seriemas in Brazil, alongside many others. We explore the challenges of surviving bitter winters, raising chicks, learning to hunt and undertaking epic migrations. And we reveal the superpowers of flight, sight, hearing and smell that lie behind raptor’s extraordinary dominance of the skies.

An extraordinary look at the extreme ways in which birds of prey conquer the toughest habitats on Earth, taking on deadly prey. From snowy owls in the high arctic, to honey buzzards raiding hornet nests in Taiwan, raptors have the solution to the most extreme challenges. We visit frozen wastes, tangled jungles, baking savannahs and remote, storm-battered isles. We reveal stories of drama and hope, alongside little-known physical adaptations and surprising intelligence.