BBC: Wings 3D Page #2

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they do it just for fun.

But wherever rays are fishing...

...there's food for pelicans too.

On a good day, their pouches...

...can trap three gallons

of fish and water...

...in a single gulp.

Like most birds, the pelican's seasonal

journeys are driven both by food...

...and the desire to breed.

[HONKING]

Back in the U.S.A...

...the snow geese

have traveled northwards nonstop...

...for over a thousand miles.

Exhaustion is already taking its toll.

Ahead lies their greatest challenge.

Monument Valley in Arizona.

For a tired family...

...this unforgiving desert

is a dangerous place to be.

The valley is all that is left

of an ancient seabed...

...but there's no water here now.

The pinnacles were formed

through the action of wind.

Some now rise a thousand feet

above the valley oor.

For the migrating birds...

...this awe-inspiring landscape...

...provides no comfort at all.

The effort is relentless.

[AIR WHISTLING]

For every breath they take...

...their wings beat three times.

Once their fat reserves are gone...

...they will start to metabolize muscle.

But despite the young birds' fatigue...

...the parents must keep

to a tight schedule...

...to reach their nesting grounds

with enough time to breed.

They drive...

...their flagging family on.

They have no plans

to break the grueling journey.

But birds are masters

of the wind and air.

And the sandstone buttresses

deflect the slightest breeze...

[WIND RUSTLING]

...giving the family a free ride

to the main flock above.

But they still have another...

...thousand miles to go.

[HONKING]

For countless other travelers...

...their migration has barely begun.

On the southern tip of Africa...

...a bird's-eye view

of Cape Town's Table Mountain...

...gives no hint of what's stirring

in the seas far offshore.

Beneath the waves...

...the greatest fish migration

on the planet has begun...

...and Cape gannets...

...are already on its trail.

[CAWING]

The gannets have thousands

of square miles of ocean to search...

...so they need help

in tracking them down.

The common dolphin...

[BELLOWS]

...a creature

with an unrivaled knowledge...

...of the undersea world.

The two species work as a team,

sharing their specialized skills.

Dolphins search beneath the waves...

...while the gannets

are the eyes in the sky.

It's the bird's view

that first spots...

...the hidden gathering.

They arrow towards it...

...at 70 miles per hour.

[CAWING]

Sixty feet down, they reach their target:

The great sardine run.

But at this depth,

the sardines are a struggle to catch.

The gannets come up with nothing.

But the dolphins corral the sardines...

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