Private Life Of Plants
Feb. 8th, 2008 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreThis has to be one of the best documentaries made. I love how it managed to reveal that there is just as much excitement and drama in a plant's life as in an animals, it just happens on such a slow scale that we generally don't notice it.
I am noticing however that the bird call tracks are still wrong. A scene of a Singing Honeyeater feeding on a Kangaroo Paw is accompanied by the call of a Brown Honeyeater (at least that's what I think it is, it doesn't sound 100% right), a Western (or more likely the eastern Little) Wattlebird, and something else I can't identify (furthering my suspicion that it was recorded over east). There is no Singing Honeyeater to be heard.
Another scene of the notorious orchid duping a wasp into thinking it's a female ready to mate is accompanied by the calls of Rufous Whistler - a species found over here, but there is also the distinct call of the Pied Currawong - an exclusively eastern species.
I love being a bird geek. :) After Life of Plants is Life of Birds, I hope they get the calls right for that one. ;)
I am noticing however that the bird call tracks are still wrong. A scene of a Singing Honeyeater feeding on a Kangaroo Paw is accompanied by the call of a Brown Honeyeater (at least that's what I think it is, it doesn't sound 100% right), a Western (or more likely the eastern Little) Wattlebird, and something else I can't identify (furthering my suspicion that it was recorded over east). There is no Singing Honeyeater to be heard.
Another scene of the notorious orchid duping a wasp into thinking it's a female ready to mate is accompanied by the calls of Rufous Whistler - a species found over here, but there is also the distinct call of the Pied Currawong - an exclusively eastern species.
I love being a bird geek. :) After Life of Plants is Life of Birds, I hope they get the calls right for that one. ;)
