- Title: Birdscape
- Date: 16th May 1991
- Summary: THIS FILM DEALS WITH THE STORY OF THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION BY AFFORESTATION OF THE FLOW COUNTRY IN CAITHNESS IN THE FAR NORTH OF SCOTLAND AND THE FURTHER THREATS TO THIS ANCIENT LANDSCAPE FROM COMMERCIAL PEAT EXTRACTION. BRUCE'S INTEREST RUNNING PARALLEL WITH THE LANDSCAPE IS THE FABULOUS BIRDLIFE TO BE FOUND HERE IN CLUDING DUNLIN, GREENSHANK, GOLDEN PLOVER, SNIPE AND CURLEW. THE FILM FEATURES THE VERY SPECIAL BIRD TO BE FOUND HERE, THE RED-THROATED DIVER WHOSE EXISTENCE IS SEVERELY THREATENED BY LOSS OF HABITAT AND LACK OF ACCESS TO BREEDING SITES THROUGH COMMERCIAL FORESTRY. THE FILM ALSO FEATURES SHORT EARED OWLS, HEN HARRIERS , MEADOW PIPITS AND WHEATEATERS. BRUCE ENDS THIS PROGRAMME BY STRESSING THE RELENTLESS DAMAET THIS HABITAT OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS, UNDERLINING THE FACT THAT EVEN IS THE FORESTRY STOPS THE LANDSCAPE WILL NEVER RETURN TO WHAT IT WAS.
- 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 3
- Transmission Date:16/05/1991
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s