Ornithographies
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is bird love. |
| 0:05.0 | Photographer Chavi Boe creates incredible images of birds and their movements |
| 0:10.0 | by combining his love of photography and technology with his love of birds and nature, |
| 0:16.0 | as in his book titled Ornithographies. |
| 0:19.0 | And it's created by the Greek root or nithos that is birds and graphis that it's drawn. |
| 0:25.6 | His images draw the paths that birds trace out in the sky with a special technique. |
| 0:31.5 | Through making visible several seconds into a single image. |
| 0:34.9 | Instead of use a steel camera, use a cinema camera and with all footage, stitch all the frames into a single image. Instead of use a steel camera, use a cinema camera, |
| 0:37.7 | and with all footage, stitch all the frames into a single image. |
| 0:42.1 | So in this way, we could see something that it's not possible to see a naked eye. |
| 0:46.7 | It's several seconds clearly in a single shot. |
| 0:50.5 | He's specially drawn to European starlings |
| 0:53.5 | and their chaotic and harmonious movements as a flock called a murmuration. |
| 0:58.0 | The starlings fly in a tight, synchronized group, sometimes to avoid a predator. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's not only a single group of birds flying away, |
| 1:11.6 | it's an interaction between the raptor, the Perilene falcon, |
| 1:15.6 | and the starlings, and the complexity between one each other. |
| 1:19.6 | So the resource is totally unpredictable, |
| 1:22.6 | because you never know the direction that you're going to take the wood. |
| 1:36.9 | Check out some of Chawi's mesmerizing images of the movements of starlings on our website, |
| 1:39.9 | birdnote.org. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm Camilo Garsohn. |
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