Birders: The Central Park Effect

Delightful Journey of the Seasons into Central Park
Nostalgia.

If you have "ever" been a New Yorker and Central Park became part of your life, then this movie is right for you!

Not only does this film have some of the very best color footage of Central Park that I have seen, but it covers three topics very effectively...First what makes birders "chirp" ...so to speak. How they think and connect to the natural world. Second, information that the entire park is a landscaped fantasy, not a natural world. Strange, when so much looks like it might have been wild New York back in the days. And third, the essential need to preserve wildlife habitat - because the Park attracts 25 per cent of all the birds in the United States as well as many migrants because there are no other good places to go.

There are four characters that play a role in the film. The birders, of course. One of them is an elder woman with cancer who has spent most of her adult life taking groups of people on bird walks through the...

A good gift for a bird watcher
We are bird watchers, and greatly enjoyed taking a virtual trip to Central Park in the winter, from our living room. Who knew Central Park would be a worthy destination for birders!

We enjoyed the birds, the people, and the park. We loaned the DVD to a friend, and she liked it too.

Would non-bird watchers like it? I don't know.

If you are looking for a gift for a bird watching friend, I highly recommend this DVD. It is much more entertaining than strictly bird-centered DVD's ("the birds of..." Or "hummingbirds" "hawks" etc).

Everything that The Big Year wasn't
Such a great documentary. I showed it to my ornithology class and they were all enthralled with the people in the movie. I really think they did an amazing job capturing the sentiment of birders and why we do what we do, knowing how crazy we must look to others and not caring in the slightest. You won't be able to watch this without falling in love with birds.

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