David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies poster

Basic Info

First Air: January 03, 2015

Rating: ⭐ 8.4/10 (14 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Triumph

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2015-01-10

Runtime: 51 min

David Attenborough concludes his epic history of the evolution of flight with an exploration of the highly advanced fliers that dominate our skies today – the extraordinarily diverse skills of the birds, and the sonar-guided precision of the bats. He encounters some of our planet’s most remarkable fliers – from peregrine falcons dive-bombing starlings over Rome, to hummingbirds hovering in the cloud forests of Ecuador. In a spectacular finale, he visits Gomantong cave in Borneo to witness the mass exodus of a million bats.