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''Attenborough in Paradise'' is a
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television documentary Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries. Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film. *Television documentary series, sometimes called d ...
written and presented by David Attenborough. 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 uninhabit ...
'' 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 ...
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 The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. The majority of species are found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia. The family has 44 species in 17 genera. The members of ...
. 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 ''The Malay Archipelago'' is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, S ...
'' by Alfred Russel Wallace. 53 min 15 sec


References

*From DVD


External links

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