Flight

Look around you, whether you live in a city or the countryside, whether you’re standing in a field or peering out of a window. If you wait a few minutes the chances are that you’ll see a bird. But did you know that many of these creatures go on epic adventures every single year?

Millions of birds travel on bird highways - routes in the sky - across countries, continents, and even over oceans. The journeys of birds were secret for so long that we used to think barn swallows buried themselves in mud for all of winter, when really they were flying halfway around the world to South Africa.

So that bird you’ve just spotted might have an incredible story to tell! We’re going to discover the mind-blowing journeys of seven different birds. You’ll meet a bird that flies so far in its lifetime, it will cover the distance from Earth to the moon … and back … THREE times! And you’ll fly over the Himalayas, where the air is so thin that helicopters can’t fly, but this bird can. Let’s follow them as they take to the skies …

From a world-renowned young activist, Mya-Rose Craig will share her love of birds and reveal some of their astonishing secrets.