FLIGHT: The Genius of Birds is the first film in Illustra Media's new series THE DESIGN OF LIFE. Each episode explores a different realm of the animal kingdom and the remarkable biological systems that make life on Earth possible. Photographed in North America; England; Peru; Greenland; and Antarctica; FLIGHT probes mysteries and mechanisms of a bird's anatomy; instinct; navigation; and embryology to reveal stunning provisions essential for life in the skies. You'll marvel at a hummingbird s unique skeletal; muscular; and metabolic systems all vital to its spectacular aerial acrobatics; the endurance and navigational abilities of an Arctic tern as it travels from pole to pole during the longest migration on the planet; the instinctive strategies that enable a flock of 300;000 European starlings to evade predators at break-neck speeds; the elaborate network of a million component parts that make a single feather an aerodynamic masterpiece; and much more. The poet William Blake wrote that to see an eagle in the air is to observe a portion of genius. In FLIGHT the ingenuity of a bird's behavior and biology showcase unmistakable evidence for design; purpose; and plan. It is evidence best explained by an intelligence that transcends the natural world.
