Greater Bird-of-paradise by Andrea Lawardi

Here are 8 short clips from the BBC documentary called Attenborough in Paradise. Follow along with David Attenborough as he explores the New Guinea forest recording the exotic Birds-of-paradise.

In this documentary, David Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition to see the Greater Bird-of-paradise in full display. Hopefully, one day I can follow in his footsteps!

I really like the quote from the 1869 book called The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace that David reads towards the end of the documentary. You can hear him read it in the video above. I was going to write it out, but it sounds so much better when he reads it aloud!

From Wikipedia:

The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.

You can purchase Attenborough in Paradise on Amazon.It’s also available from Netflix either on DVD or streaming to your computer.