Tonight at 8pm on BBC and on BBC One HD is the premiere transmission of episode five of Earthflight for which David Tennant does the narration. This episode is titled Asia and Australia.
The programme again lasts 60 minutes and the description is:
"In this bird's-eye view of two continents, demoiselle cranes negotiate a dangerous Himalayan pass on their way to India while high-flying bar-headed geese take the fast track five miles above.
In Rajasthan, vultures watch hunting tigers hoping for a meal and pigeons visit a temple dedicated solely to sacred rats. Pigeons are also our guide to the greatest gatherings of camels on Earth and learn to dodge buzzards around the battlements of Jodhpur Fort. 9,000 cranes overwinter in the most unlikely of spots - a barbed wire compound in the centre of a desert town.
In Australia, rainbow lorikeets drop in on Sydney and patrol Australia's Gold Coast. In the outback, white cockatoos swirl in thousands and budgerigars pass Uluru (Ayers Rock) and gather in the biggest flocks ever recorded.
In China, swallows and swifts visit the Great Wall and the Forbidden City of Beijing. In Japan, the country's most revered birds - Japanese cranes are fed fish by appreciative locals and are joined in strange, momentary harmony by hungry red foxes, white-tailed eagles and Steller's eagles. As peace descends, Japanese cranes dance beautifully in the snow."
Please see the Earthflight section of DavidTennantOnTwitter.com for more info about this programme.
The series will be released on DVD on 26th March and on Blu-ray on 16th April 2012.
The sixth and final programme in this series will be shown on Sunday at 4pm.
