''Attenborough in Paradise'' is a BBC television documentary written and presented by

David Attenborough Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural histor ...

. It was first transmitted in 1996 and is part of the ''

Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages ''Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages'' is a DVD collection of seven David Attenborough BBC documentary specials. Documentary Summaries ''A Blank on the Map'' (1971) The central area of New Guinea was thought to be uninhabi ...

'' collection of seven documentaries. In this program Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition, developed after reading a book as a nine-year-old, to see the

greater bird-of-paradise The greater bird-of-paradise (''Paradisaea apoda'') is a bird-of-paradise in the genus ''Paradisaea''. Carl Linnaeus named the species ''Paradisaea apoda'', or "legless bird-of-paradise", because early trade-skins to reach Europe were prepared w ...

in display; and records the spectacular birdlife of the

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

forest, in particular the various birds-of-paradise. In 2015, the BBC released a new episode of the series shot at a Sheikh's private aviary in Qatar.

Quotes

In the final piece to camera for this documentary David Attenborough introduces quotes from the 1869 book '' The Malay Archipelago'' by Alfred Russel Wallace. 53 min 15 sec

References

*From DVD

External links

* BBC television documentaries Nature educational television series {{BBC-tv-prog-stub