A helicopter scared my cockatoo
Perched precariously on a filming platform, metres up a rainforest tree, cameraman Gordon Buchanan tries to film the wildlife living in the forest canopy. However he soon discovers that it's impossible to escape modern life even in this remote spot.
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Gordon Buchanan sings the cockatoo blues
When programme maker Steven Lyle ventured into New Guinea's forest to film birds he came across another forest dweller. This small bird lacked the bright colours of the toucan but had developed another way of getting noticed. Find out more in Encounter with a Vogelkop bowerbird.
Published 26 August 2009
Gordon Buchanan
