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''Earthflight'' is a British
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that shows a flight from the view of the wings of
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s across six
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, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view. The
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series was created by
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and narrated by
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and consisted of six 60-minute episodes. The first episode aired on
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on 29 December 2011. A two-hour subset of ''Earthflight'' was aired in October 2012 by the Discovery Channel in the US as ''Winged Planet''. The entire series with rerecorded narrative aired on
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, beginning in September 2013, under the title ''Earthflight, A
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Special Presentation''. As explained in the sixth episode, some of the birds were imprinted on a human and filmed from an
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; others were filmed with a helicopter drone. Some other footage resulted from tiny cameras being strapped to the backs of birds. __TOC__


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Merchandise

In the UK, a two-disc
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was released on 26 March 2012, while the
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sets was released later month on 16 April 2012. In United States and Canada, a two-disc DVD was released on 18 March 2014, and for Blu-ray Disc was released on 8 April 2014. It was distributed by BBC Warner.


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''Earthflight''
on the Eden website {{BBC Natural History Unit BBC television documentaries about science 2011 British television series debuts 2012 British television series endings BBC high definition shows English-language television shows Discovery Channel original programming