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Twixt heaven and Earth / produced by Incandescent Films Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada ; Incandescent Films presents ; written and directed by Donna Caruso ; produced with assistance from Discovery Channel Canada [and 3 others] ; [producer, Joe MacDonald, Donna Caruso].
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pesticides and wildlife--Canada, Western.
- Pesticides and wildlife.
- Hawks--Canada, Western.
- Hawks.
- Environmental protection--Canada, Western.
- Environmental protection.
- Environmental protection--United States.
- United States.
- Environmental protection--Argentina.
- Argentina.
- Western Canada.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Environmental films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (48 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- The swainson's hawk nests and spends its summers in the grasslands of Western Canada. By autumn it begins its amazing southward migration to winter 11,000 kilometres away in the Argentinean pampas. Here it lives in flocks of up to 15,000--and it encounters a serious threat: toxic pesticides which kill these majestic birds by the thousands. Join Saskatchewans Dr. Stuart Houston as he reveals the secrets of the amazing swainson's hawk--a bird he has studied for over 50 years. Houston and his team use cutting-edge satellite technology along with traditional bird-banding to greatly increase our knowledge of the lives of migratory birds. In order to save the hawks, the governments of Argentina, Canada and the United States have joined forces with industry and conservation groups to protect these birds and other species from horrible deaths caused by pesticides.
- Participant:
- Consultant/narrator, Dr. Stuart Houston.
- Credits:
- Editing, Chris Bailey ; camera, George Hupka ; music composed and performed by Craig Salkeld.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Incandescent Films Inc./National Film Board of Canada, ©1997; previously released in 1999.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 28, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-twixt Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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