At the first light of dawn, around the world, a community of creatures, beyond number, gather, in every country, around every district and across every neighbourhood. All at the same time of day. They don’t howl, they don’t growl and they don’t hiss. They sing! They celebrate the new day! They are our native birds.
Often shy, for the most part, gentle, and always busy. They live where we live, to us their song is the sound of home, they connect us to our homeland.
They connect us to our ancestors, we hear the same songs as those who have gone before. We appreciate the same natural beauty as did our forefathers.
And they connect us to our natural habitat, the Earth, to share our world, with them and to restore them to the extent that our world may once again become vibrant with nature.
With all this in mind Original Species Ltd. has developed an upmarket quality gift around the native birds of our homeland, with a view to sharing that homeland experience with visitors and friends.
In 2006 to celebrate Sir Richard Attenborough’s 80th birthday, the public were asked to choose their favourite piece [pēs] from all his tele- vision moments, and they voted this particular clip as number one. Press play below so see the footage.
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