Meet the hummers

"Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air" gets four stars for the quite spectacular footage of these small jewels of the avian world. Many of the hummingbirds featured are very, very strange!

My favourite is the species living high in the mountains, where the air is too thin for the bird to hover - which doesn't matter, since all flowers are within reach on the ground. Another classic is the hummingbird who nests close to hawks' nests, since hawks love to eat animals that prey on hummingbird nests. And how many people realize that swifts are evolutionary cousins of hummingbirds? The most spectacular part of the documentary shows the mating ritual of the rare spatuletail, endemic to a small region of Peru.

That being said, I nevertheless get the impression that this documentary is more about nerdy ornithologists doing research on hummingbirds, than about the birds themselves...

But sure, if "hummers" are your first love, this might just indulge you.