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15+ Best Movies About Birds

Birds are significant animals that play an important part in the ecosystem. They are the ones responsible for diffusing seeds that will later on grow into plants that help us in terms of food, medicine, and shelter.

Apart from that, they are also known for their exceptional sense of direction. Well, no doubt for an animal who got the bird’s eye view! Uncover bird facts by watching these OWLsome movies about birds:

Movies About Birds

The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • James Currie (Actor)

The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America

Birding offers direct contact with one of our primary treasures of wildlife. Learn core elements of birding and methods for observing birds in the field. You'll also take a panoramic look at the bird species of North America and visit 23 of the top North American birding sites.

These lectures are your doorway to an endlessly rewarding pursuit and a lifetime of enjoyment and discovery.

Wild Birds of Australia - Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Blink Films (Producer)

Wild Birds of Australia

Australia is a vast island-continent of diverse habitats–including beaches, deserts, grasslands, and tropical forests–that make it a haven for many unusual and rare bird species. From its largest bird of prey, the wedge-tailed eagle, to the emu, an implausible flightless wonder, take an aerial odyssey through the lives of some of Australia's amazing avian ambassadors.

Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper

Life-long birder Christian Cooper takes us on a journey to dive into and discover the wild, wonderful, and unpredictable world of birds.

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Movies About Birds on Amazon Prime Video

Hummingbirds
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • David Attenborough (Actor)

Hummingbirds

Here the beautiful images and natural sounds are repeated without narration, offering a whole new dimension in video enjoyment.

Wild Isles - Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • David Attenborough (Actor)

Wild Isles: Season 1

David Attenborough explores our British mountain, woodland, grassland, freshwater and ocean habitats to reveal wildlife and places as spectacular as anything found on the globe.

Audubon
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Al Reinert (Director) - Al Reinert (Writer) - Cina Alexander (Producer)

Audubon

Naturalist and 19th century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized – and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.

Rio
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jesse Eisenberg, Leslie Mann, Anne Hathaway (Actors)

Rio

RIO is an animated feature from the makers of the Ice Age films. Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rain forest of Brazil, this comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind.

Storks
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key (Actors)

Storks

Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby.

Hoot
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson (Actors)

Hoot

From the best-selling children's novel by Carl Hiaasen comes the story of three kids who answer the call of the wild by protecting a family of endangered miniature owls in Florida.

Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess (Actors)

Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole

Soren, a young owl, falls into the clutches of the evil Pure Ones and must set out to find the legendary Guardians of Ga’Hoole – his only hope of saving the owl kingdoms.

Life of Birds
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Joanna Sarsby (Director) - David Attenborough (Writer) - Joanna Sarsby (Producer)

Life of Birds

David Attenborough looks to the skies for this series, watching 300 different species of birds as he uncovers the private lives of these clever, engaging conquerors of the air.

The Big Year
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jack Black, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson (Actors)

The Big Year

Life goes to the birds–literally–for obsessed avian enthusiasts Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson in this comedy.

Surf's Up
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel (Actors)

Surf's Up

Come join Cody (Shia LaBeouf), a Rockhopper penguin, as he journeys from his home in Shiverpool, Antarctica, to take part in the Big Z Memorial Surf-Off on the beach of Pen Gu Island.

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During his adventure he meets some new friends, including surf nut Chicken Joe (Jon Heder) and the spirited lifeguard Lani (Zooey Deschanel).

Daisy - A Hen Into The Wild
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Stacey Depass, Toby Proctor, Christian Potenza (Actors)

Daisy – A Hen Into The Wild

Daisy is a hen who manages to escape the horrible conditions of an egg production line. After surviving a harrowing encounter with a one-eyed weasel and being rejected by the barnyard animals where she grew up, a chance encounter sees her becoming the guardian of a duckling.

Disneynature Crimson Wing
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Narrator Zabou Breitman (Actor)

Disneynature Crimson Wing

Discover one of nature's last great mysteries in The Crimson Wing, a miraculous story of love, courage and survival from Disneynature, the studio that brought you EARTH.

March of the Penguins
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman (Actors)

March of the Penguins

This documentary chronicles the heroic and harrowing journey that emperor penguins make amid subfreezing temperatures and violent snowstorms at the South Pole in order to mate.

The Eagle Huntress
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Aisholpan Nurgaiv (Actor)

The Eagle Huntress

A teenage girl named Ashol-Pan and living in the mountains of northwestern Mongolia learns how to become an eagle huntress.

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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Mark Bittner (Actor)

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

This doc chronicles the true story of a homeless San Francisco street musician who adopts a flock of wild parrots as he searches for life's meaning.

Winged Migration
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jacques Perrin, Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro (Actors)

Winged Migration

A critically acclaimed and award-winning unique, exquisitely beautiful and jaw-dropping documentary about birds in flight in their natural world.

Birder's Guide to Everything, A
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee, James Le Gros (Actors)

A Birder's Guide to Everything

Thinking he's made the discovery of a lifetime, fifteen-year-old birding fanatic David heads on an epic road trip the night before his father's remarriage, hoping to solidify his place in birding history.

Chicken Run
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Mel Gibson (Actors)

Chicken Run

While the chickens on evil Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop – for good!

Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking Rooster, crash-lands into the coop. With teamwork, determination and little bit o'cluck, the fearless flock plots one last daring attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

Adventures In Zambezia
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jeremy Suarez, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum (Actors)

Adventures In Zambezia

Zambezia is a new feature film by Triggerfish Animation Studios about a young high-spirited falcon who journeys to the famed bird city of Zambezia.

Kes
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Colin Welland, David Bradley, Lynne Perrie (Actors)

Kes

A tale of a troubled working-class Yorkshire boy who turns away from a life of comic books and shoplifting when he finds and raises a baby kestrel falcon named Kes.

Movies About Birds on Netflix

Dancing with the Birds

From ruffling their majestic feathers to nailing im-peck-able courtship routines, birds in paradise flaunt their best moves in hopes of landing a mate. (Watch on Netflix)

Animal (Season 2, Episode 2: Birds of Prey)

Curved talons, hooked beaks, killer eyesight: these aerial assassins have the most sophisticated tools for hunting prey at their disposal. (Watch on Netflix)

72 Cutest Animals (Episode 7: Weird and Wonderful)

The zebra, flamingo, snow monkey and Malayan tapir are admired for their unique, colorful markings, but even these oddities can still count as cute. (Watch on Netflix)

Birders

Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful species. (Watch on Netflix)

Movies About Birds on Disney Plus

Planet of the Birds

Tough and versatile, birds live in almost every habitat across the world. (Watch on Disney+)

Winged Seduction: Birds of Paradise

A documentary about people who are trying to document birds of paradise. (Watch on Disney+)

Water Birds

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild blue wilderness of the vast oceans, to experience the beauty and variety of their majestic birds, each perfectly designed for its habitat. It won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel. (Watch on Disney+)

Piper

“Piper” tells the story of a hungry sandpiper hatchling who ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline. The only problem is, the food is buried beneath the sand where scary waves roll up onto the shore. (Watch on Disney+)

People Also Ask:

What is the movie with the birds?

  • The Birds
  • The Birds II: Land's End

What scary movie has a lot of birds?

According to Collider, The Birds (1963).

No list of birds in horror would be complete without Alfred Hitchcock's thriller about an avian attack on a California town.

What Disney movie had for the birds?

According to Wikipedia, For the Birds is one of two short films on the DVD and VHS release of Monsters, Inc. The film was also released as part of the Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 in 2007.

What is the funny bird watching movie?

The Big Year is a 2011 American comedy film starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Steve Martin, directed by David Frankel and written by Howard Franklin.

The film was based on the 2004 non-fiction book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik.

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