Thristy Birds
Thristy Birds
Clip: 425536_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1767
Original Film: 040-103-07
HD: N/A
Location: Australia
Timecode: -
Hundreds of thousands of birds die in one of Australia's worst drought in years. Livestock is also hard hit and forest fires add to the misery. The birds drown one another by sheer weight of numbers while flocking to a nearby water dam. A tree is swarmed by thousands of birds. Various shots of the sky filled with birds. A boy watches. Flocks land in a pond. Close-up of several birds fluttering their wings as they land in the water. A shoreline covered by countless birds. A close-up of a dead bird washing up on shore.