Birds with cameras take flight in ‘Winged Planet,’ tonight on the Discovery Channel
Author: Jade Kim
The current entry in the critically-acclaimed World series from the Discovery Network and the BBC airs tonight at 8:00 PM ET. “Winged Planet”– like “Blue Planet” and “World Earth” before it– is a nature documentary that uses state-of-the-art technology to catch absolutely fantastic footage. What makes “Winged Planet” extremely special is the usage of custom cameras that have been affixed to birds, along with remote-controlled avian reproductions that can travel among the high-flying animals.
In describing the movie team’s strategy to achieving such an objective, director John Downer informed Pop Photo in an interview that “just what we had to do was strip down the highest-quality, however tiniest HD camera available. We needed to engineer it so it …
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