- Title: Birdscape
- Date: 23rd May 1991
- Summary: BRUCE PEARSON VISITS THE ATLANTIC COASTLINE OF NORHT CORNWALL TO STUDY THE PEREG RINE FALCON AND ITS HABITAT. HE MEETS FELLOW ARTIST DICK TRELEAVEN WHO HAS MADE A LIFETIME'S STUDY OF THIS MAJESTIC HUNTER. TOGETHER THEY OBSERVE AND DISCUSS THE BEHAVIOUR AND BREEDING HABITS OF THE PEREGRINE AND THE PROBLEMS THE BIRD HAS FACED OVER THE YEARS - POISONING FROM PESTICIDES AND PERSECUTION BY MAN. THE FILM IS ILLUSTRATED BY BRUCE'S PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF THE HABITAT AND BIRDS. OTHER BIRDS OF THE CLIFFS ARE INTRODUCED INCLUDING THE BUZZARD, KESTREL, JACKDAW, GULL AND CROW. WE SEE THE REARING OF THE YOUNG PEREGRINES, THE EYASSES, AND WATCH AS THEY LEARN FLYING AND HUNTING SKILLS. BRUCE AND DICK DISCUSS THE SUCCESS STORY OF THE PEREGRINES INCREASE IN NUMBERS IN CORNWALL BUT BRUCE STRESSES THAT CONSTANT VIGILANCE AND PROTECTION ARE NEEDED IF WE ARE TO RETAIN THIS MOST MAGNIFICENT BIRD OF PREY OVER OUR CLIFFS AND IN OUR SKIES.
- Description:Series with leading wildlife artist bruce pearson as he searches for and paints birds in their landscape - often a threatened environment - such as merlins,henharriers and black-throated divers in the disappearing bogs of the flow country
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:AVIE LITTLER ASSOCIATES LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 4
- Transmission Date:23/05/1991
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s