Bird Migration on Merchant Ships

[@graemebowd4071]

One of the best bird videos you'll ever see on KZbin. I wonder how long it took to gather these shots. Absolutely stunning!

[@sirjamesfancy]

Love the music choice (Burning Hearts - Into the Wilderness) and atmosphere of this. Also how the video freezes on the warbler like he's making an appearance in a sitcom 3:42. The combination of nature and industrial is beautiful.

[@OdiFroilan]

thanks for appreciating

[@agnesematuri8356]

It is so simple and yet so full of poetry, the best video on KZbin I have ever seen.

[@OdiFroilan]

I aprreciate your point of view. Nature's poetry is mind blowing.

[@Kostis-h2c]

as a birdlover from the age of 8 and now 31, i see all the birds of the nature here on a ship. so AMAZING.

[@BabyDoll-fs3bu]

I absolutely love your videos!!!👏 Awesome!! So beautiful- no talk no bs just nature n music yesss!!! New sub

[@groggers]

This is really remarkable! Thanks to Tom Scott for including this video in his weekly newsletter!

[@nanr7541]

Thank you for making and sharing this beautiful film. Wow. Amazing.

[@jojoba11]

I keep coming back to see this video. It makes me so happy and calm. It's brilliant - thank you for sharing!

[@OdiFroilan]

Thank you. Now you can imagine the feelings I got every time I was finding one of these guys on board while being enclosed there working in the engine room and unable to step on land for several months.

[@jojoba11]

@@OdiFroilan Enchantment! :)

[@MediterraneanAesthetics]

@@OdiFroilan What camera did you use to film this fantastic documentary , and also what is your job on these ship/s ?

[@OdiFroilan]

@@MediterraneanAesthetics I am a marine engineer. Due to safety restrictions for tanker vessels, only intrinsically safe cameras can be used on the main deck.

[@anitacoogan4822]

Thankyou enjoyed. With the migrations getting harder with the Skyscrapers, Windmills and less habitat to feed, Ships are a lifesaver. A Freind & I rescue songbirds that hit the glass skyscrapers in Newark NJ, TRT made a video named 'Window Strikes in the Business District' of us picking up injured Warblers. In Newark most of the birds that hit the glass skyscrapers perish on impact, or when fall to the cement pavement. The injured get a 2nd chance when we bring then to TRT. TRT vid minute 4:01 shows a paralyzed Flicker crying, that Flicker made full recovery.

[@OdiFroilan]

I saw your video. You are doing a very good job there. It's heartbreaking indeed just the thought of a small song bird flying for so many miles avoiding raptors etc only to suddenly collide on a man made structure that was selfishly designed. Unfortunately some birds face similar dangers on a ship as some still hit on windows or are distracted by the lights at night especially during storms. Birds were migrating for thousands of years before the shipping industry took over the oceans. Ships do help tired birds but attract also others that would have normally cross the sea right away without having to deal with the extra dangers of a ship.

[@anitacoogan4822]

@@OdiFroilan Wow I did not consider that perhaps some birds attracted to ship they may have flown to their original destination. The more I know the more I want to know, thank you for sharing. I agree selfish designed as they know the birds are harmed, but do not care . Newark is big city ( not save for animals or people) and two of us cannot cover every building as the gulls eat the injured & perished in seconds -- yet every year more glass skyscrapers go up in Newark ( cheap and fashionable looking).

[@antoniettabroadhurst1178]

Wow...amazing and you put the right music to accompany it too... I simply love it. Thanks

[@OdiFroilan]

thanks for appreciating

[@sontiumdweller]

I'm back to this amazing video after a couple of years and I still enjoy it as if it were the first time ... good job indeed, it would be nice to track where and when these birds were observed, it would be awesome! Thanks! And Burning Hearts... wow!

[@OdiFroilan]

i am glad you enjoyed it. Most of my observations are on Ebird.org

[@theo_D_E_N]

Υπεροχο και ενδιαφέρον βιντεο, οπως όλα όσα εχω παρακολουθήσει σε αυτο το channel. Εντυπωσιακό πραγματικά. Ναυτική οικογένεια και εμείς ,οποτε έρχονται αναμνήσεις στο μυαλό. Οι περισσοτεροι απο εμάς οσο ταξιδεύαμε, κάποιοι ψαρεύαμε , αλλοι ασχολούνταν με μοντελισμό, βιβλία, παζλ, κλπ Είναι πολυ ξεχωριστό και ενδιαφέρον χομπι το bird watching όμως . Μπράβο στη νεα γενια Ελλήνων ναυτικων και καλα ταξιδια εύχομαι ...

[@OdiFroilan]

Το ενδιαφέρον για τα πουλιά είναι εν μέρη προερχόμενο και από τις ιστορίες παλαιών ναυτικών σχετικά με αυτά. Και 'γω σε ναυτική οικογένεια μεγάλωσα. Σημερα πλέον είναι πολύ ευκολότερο να κινηματογραφηθουν όλα αυτά και να μοιραστούν με τον υπόλοιπο κόσμο. Ευχαριστώ για το σχόλιο

[@holgerfrank7491]

What a fantastic video. Urban wildlife on a ship. You get so many birds species. I was mostly surprised as I have seen the nightjar on the red pipe. Thanks for sharing. The music to that was a good choice.

[@johnkerr1953]

An excellent video of birds landing on your vessel, l thurly enjoyed it, but I saw a story on the TV about an Owl landing on a fishing boat and one of the crew caught it and fed it till they reached the land & took it to the place whare they kept birds till it recouperated fully.

[@OdiFroilan]

Thank you John, there is a very similar story with a rescued owl in one of my other videos if you want to have a look.

[@BioBush]

How are there so many species on board? A few dozen different songbirds, hawks, and an OWL? I guess it's a big safe island with lots of perches and no predators. I never would have guessed if you didn't put this great video together. Thanks for doing the work and appreciating birds!

[@deinDilemma]

BioBush There are predators for sure!! ;)

[@allisvain123]

2:39 there is your ''no predators''

[@Tigerpuffer]

Some of these birds are in the middle of thousand-mile migrations, largely at the mercy of the winds. It's not unusual for them to get blown off-course.

[@henrycastro-miller252]

I think it’s because over the open ocean there is no where for land birds to land so they find a ships

[@Revelationscreation]

No hawks in this video

[@daniel_schmidt.]

One of my favourite youtube videos. The motives, the music, the zooming. Everything about this video ist just perfect👌

[@pgordijn4561]

What an amazing varied collection of birds. The Nightjar was amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[@tiagoguerreiro3098]

So many lifers in one video... And so many birds that usually stay in the bushes forever, and here you film them like they are house sparrows!! Incredible :)

[@silvesby]

Had a swallow land on a research vessel I was on last week. Looked up birds on ships and I'm so happy I found this. Very lovely video! Especially partial to the beautiful raptors :)

[@PedroRibeiro1995]

You're a lucky man, there are a bunch of species I never saw. Amazing to see a boat work as a little stop-over site with some birds even feeding on it

[@diebaumscheibe4768]

A heartwarming video with amazing combinations. I like birding quizzes with pictures of birds in their natural environment ;-)

[@OdiFroilan]

jajaja The contrast of the background with some of the species is really unique.

[@Giventoflytrials]

Tom Scott sent me! Thanks for this!

[@sunnyrockvictor373]

Would never have believed so many birds to photograph from a merchant ship amazing video thank-you for sharing.

[@wordreet]

This was so fun to watch. I definitely saw a Nightjar near the end, the big squishy looking one.

[@corvidaesk517]

This is truly amazing footage. Thank you for sharing it!

[@nabarg75]

Absolutely amazing diversity! Thanks so much for putting this video together. The songs are pretty great too!

[@cherrypi_b]

I don't exactly know why but this video made me so happy :) I love birds. Thank you!

[@parthasarathichakraborty1604]

Truly a wonderful video ! This video shows a new horizon in front of me about bird migration......... even an owl also takes a shelter in this Merchant Ship during migration. Thanks for sharing.

[@Wheely_Dan]

Thanks Tom Scott for guiding me here.

[@martinswannell3870]

Really great piece of filming. Good work..a real education and I've been a birder for 50 years !!

[@OdiFroilan]

I really appreciate that

[@lawnchairman]

I really would like to see a part 2 of this fantastic video!

[@OdiFroilan]

I have all the footage for part 2 from Gulf of Mexico. I just need to find the time edit it...

[@choirboyfromhell1]

This is BRILLIANT! All the ones I saw working the Great Lakes...Bald Eagles to Grosbeaks, you name it...this video captures it! Super Cool!

[@victordiaztrujillo9471]

Thanks for these kind of videos, froilan, the transition with the owl was pretty good

[@OdiFroilan]

a vos!

[@BlueFromSky]

Amazing video and quality, thanks for sharing. I'm impressed by the bird's performances, from the tiny eurasian wren to the bigger ones.

[@vijaykumarwali7509]

Amazing documentation... One of the best. Videos ive ever seen .. Keep up sir

[@mo8360]

My compliments Odi, this is an amazing video document and you made a really great job!! :)

[@jojoba11]

Still the best video on the internet 🥰

[@OdiFroilan]

jeje muchas gracias

[@gaucho9700]

What a fabulous setting for these birds-giraffes in New York City!

[@OdiFroilan]

haha. Thank you my friend. Was nice birding with you in Grand Cayman

[@LarryParamedic1]

Fantastic, your work made me happy!

[@roflcopterIII]

Wow thats a wild variety of birds. Looks like you had peregrines, kestrels, and a eurasian hobby (?) hunting on the ship

[@OdiFroilan]

Correct. There is also a Red-footed falcon at 03:00 and then a Western Marsh Harrier, some Black Kites and an Osprey. The Shrikes were also hunting small birds and the small birds were hunting insects

[@beatriceschulz973]

Wow, großartiges Video, so eine Vielfalt an Vögeln ❣🤩👍🏻

[@arnogoossens1764]

Never seen footage like this before, thank you, great video.

[@josh4779]

Really really awesome!! I felt very relaxed while and after this video. Want to go for a boat trip now 😅

[@OdiFroilan]

just wait for the next migration period :)

[@josh4779]

@@OdiFroilan Migration period of birds? Or what do you mean?

[@OdiFroilan]

@@josh4779 Exactly. Outside of the migration periods and paths, you can pass many months at sea without seeing anything.

[@rahxt]

thanks Tom Scott

[@markusmielke9635]

Absolutely amazing video. So many species.

[@skylilly1]

They are taking a much needed rest 😊 cool video! 👏

[@SeabirdingQueen]

This is a wonderful video. Thank you so much for all you do for the birds that land on the ships. You are amazing. Love the music, too. Can say what the music is?

[@OdiFroilan]

Thank you for your kind words. It is more than a pleasure for me to observe the birds, sometimes help them during their difficult migration and also to share this pleasure with everyone that is interested in birds and do not have the opportunity to see this secret part of their lifes. The music is from the beautiful band called "Burning Hearts".

[@debishearwater8627]

@@OdiFroilan Thank you so much! I will look for this band. I've been a birder all my life. I shared this video on my Facebook profile, Debi Love Shearwater.

[@nillunillu]

Beautiful!!!! Congratulations and thanks for share!!

[@lizharris4582]

Thank you for sharing this, it’s absolutely amazing xx

[@lam_lian]

Omg they are taking breaks on the ships! I love this!!! 😍😍😍

[@jeanpierrechoisy6474]

Outstanding ! In how many days, weeks or months was this filmed?

[@OdiFroilan]

Thanks. The footage was collected during the contracts i had in 5 years. Depending the route of the ship, the period of the year and the breaks i had from my duties, sometimes there were whole months without seeing any bird. Best times are the migratory "waves" when in a few hours, more than 10 different species can be found on deck. Other times lonely individuals appear or small groups of just 1 species.

[@jeanpierrechoisy6474]

@@OdiFroilan Thank you very much for the information. And congratulations on persevering for five years to collect this data. I assume that the data is entered on some ad hoc site such as eBird.

[@jeanpierrechoisy6474]

@@OdiFroilan Additional response. In total, you have collected remarkable data, you have benefited thousands of people and, in doing so, you have certainly enhanced your life on board. A very positive result!

[@chrisventouris]

Wonderful video my friend!!! Safe seas to you!

[@riccardoalba426]

The best video on KZbin👍

[@donnajoyce5710]

Fantastic video. Really enjoyed watching 😁

[@BerniceNL]

Such a cool video! Awesome to see that a ship can help these exhausted birds so well. Did the poor coal tit still manage to recover or was it too exhausted?

[@OdiFroilan]

After a couple of hours of being kept in a warm place in my cabin and provided with sugarwater, the coal tit finally managed to recover and was released the same day as the ship was approaching land at the Baltic Sea. I guess it must have had a window collision cause his belly seemed to have enough fat.

[@ayatollahlalalola]

@@OdiFroilan Bless you

[@IrvinCalicut]

Excellent effort and valuable record .... Hope to see another one soon

[@ramonastrempel9200]

Fantastic collection of birds on these special moving islands 😍👌

[@Animasterpro]

Wonderful video! 4:05 is this a meadow pipit, a tree pipit or a rock pipit?

[@janvanholten7592]

Amazing collection.

[@yosegaman]

superbe vidéo avec un bon choix de musique ! 10/10 partage obligé !

[@harshavardhanjamakhandi6861]

This is such a brilliant one ... Loved it to the core🙂

[@Lexus5050]

Thanks so much for putting this video together. Really i hope people stop killing them specially the turtledove which is Endangered💔💔

[@Lexus5050]

From Saudi Arabia 🌹

[@zerolopez86]

All my respects mate!! Great video, great music and great work helping birds!!😍

[@OdiFroilan]

Gracias. Me alegro que te gustó. Fue mi placer observar la migración de las aves desde este aspecto.

[@zerolopez86]

@@OdiFroilan respondiendo en español! Gracias por ese vídeo y que tengas buen mar siempre!!!

[@OdiFroilan]

@@zerolopez86 A vos! En poco tiempo prepararé uno más con las especies de América que emigran sobre el Golfo de México

[@zerolopez86]

@@OdiFroilan Pues me suscribo a tu canal, y estaré a la espera!!😉👍

[@syntaxerorr]

Are These are birds that are traveling across the ocean and just happen upon your vessel? Or are these birds that started the journey on the boat by accident? Great video & music.

[@OdiFroilan]

This happens in every migration period and in every ship that happens to be passing through the migration paths at these moments. The vast majority of the birds will pass without stopping by. But most exhausted or confused birds will definitely use the ships as a temporary shelter.

[@birbcall5778]

This has to be the most extraordinary and exciting birding videos i have seen, in which sea did you shot this video? The species are truely amazing!

[@OdiFroilan]

Thank you. Most of the species were filmed in the Mediterranean, some at the Baltic and only a few at bay of Biscay, English channel and North Sea.

[@birbcall5778]

@@OdiFroilan wow, some of those species are amazing for those places!

[@OdiFroilan]

@@birbcall5778 you said amazing for those places and you actually reminded me to correct my previous answer. A few species are also from the Black Sea like the Yellowhammer and the Red-breasted flycatcher for example.

[@birbcall5778]

@@OdiFroilan ooke, that would make more sence 😂

[@OdiFroilan]

@@birbcall5778 yeah none of those species was a surprise considering the time of the year and the migration path. Actually these are like half of the species seen. I remember finding on board storks, mallards, goldfinches, scops owl etc that unfortunately couldn't film due to job limitations.

[@guillaumemerlin-domont7231]

Congratulations. True love for birds.

[@ToraBenzeyen]

It is an amazing video. It gave me a very new perspective, thank you.

[@beatricevernier2876]

Fantastic ! So there are bird lovers on these huge merchant ships ? Thanks for sharing !

[@cmariamsoto]

Excelente documentación. Gracias. Hace años mi hermana me indicaba que esto ocurría, ya que en ocasiones se observa presencia de algunas especies no comunes con la llegada de algunas barcazas y embarcaciones a la bahía.

[@OdiFroilan]

Gracias. Es verdad que en algunas ocasiones, los pájaros están tan cansados que una vez que bajan en el barco, no se van a ir hasta que el barco se acerca a algún puerto que también puede estar en una dirección incorrecta de lo que deberían ir por su migración. En otros casos por ejemplo, pájaros carpinteros que normalmente no hacen migración han aparecido en sitios que no existe su especie viajando con barcos que transportan madera. Pero la mayoría de las ocasiones son pájaros que bajan por un día para descansar,comer y tomar agua y luego continúan su viajé a la dirección que sus antepasados hacían por miles de años.

[@Listermintsluesh]

Truly wonderful, shows how birds migrate across vast oceans great vid

[@robindrenth792]

Wow, very beautiful and interesting. Thanks!

[@OdiFroilan]

my pleasure broder

[@y2kbug58]

Fantastic! Really interesting video. Do you keep bird lists and (approximate) locations? Such data could be really useful to analyse.

[@OdiFroilan]

Thank you Duncan. I used to keep records but mostly to confirm the already existing data from shore based based ornitholigical researches for the main migration paths.

[@TerkaBuszptaki2021]

WOW ! Amazing 🖐👍

[@Tony_Lewis]

Hop, hop, hop, hopping to the music.

[@ludmilaputrikevica1456]

Great video👍Thank you🌹❤🥰

[@Project-m1k]

Osprey,Rusty tailed flycatcher, grey shrike, Siberian stonechat, peregrine falcon, owl, blue throat... Yellow tit, collared dove..... Excellent!

[@diebaumscheibe4768]

Odysseas, why is it so important for you, that the camera had intrinsic safety? Has it something to do with humidity at ships?

[@OdiFroilan]

Most of these clips have been filmed on the tank deck of crude oil and LNG carriers. In both cases, flammable gases are to be expected in the atmosphere and that's why there is a strict international policy that prohibits the use of any common camera, smartphone, flashlight, tool etc as they may cause sparks and ignite massive fires or explosions.

[@gnuckolls2310]

These appear to be European birds, although some we have in the states. I recognized a few, Eurasian dove, Robin, hoopoo! Loggerheaded shrike, perigren falcon?, kestrel, wren. It would be nice to know where the ship was traveling.

[@OdiFroilan]

the ship was traveling all around Europe from black sea to Baltic sea but most species were seen on tye Mediterranean

[@Revelationscreation]

Not a loggerhead shrike- a great grey shrike- looks very similar to your American northern shrike, more so then to your loggerhead shrike.

[@theangriestoftabbies]

Beautiful video thank you

[@alexandrafountoukidou5345]

A fantastic video!!!! Thank you! 🙏

[@OdiFroilan]

Ευχαριστώ

[@alexandrafountoukidou5345]

@@OdiFroilan Να είστε καλά!!! Εξαιρετικά όλα σας τα βίντεο!!!

[@OdiFroilan]

@@alexandrafountoukidou5345 χαρά μου να μοιράζομαι την ευχάριστη που μου δίνει η παρατήρηση τους

[@alexandrafountoukidou5345]

Σας καταλαβαινω απόλυτα! 🙏😊

[@rajendradeore3134]

Best video of birds on sea .

[@petergoldammer3595]

How to get food for the birds in the ship? Building green decks with plants?

[@manjushasavant7055]

Great compilation.. just awesome

[@novakovamarke]

Beautiful and very surprising video! Is that just one ship or more? Congratulation!

[@OdiFroilan]

The clips were captured in more than one ships and only during migration periods and paths

[@kloug2006]

4:50 What a shot!

[@user-sk4gj3ji3o]

Excellent music

[@MuaathAdly]

Truly astounding video!! Couldn’t have been better !

[@paulmartin4916]

Fantastic video, One or two species I wasn’t sure about is there a list?

[@OdiFroilan]

No, i haven't made a full list but you can write to me in which minute of the video they appear and i ll happily tell you the species. Cheers

[@p3dr0s4]

Great video. Thank you!

[@TheBrigitteE]

Fantastisch!!!

[@doru10922]

It feels like a petrol station:))

[@udiyamanshukla3463]

Great video. Can I ask which camera equipment you used?

[@jablewit]

Looks like a European Bee Eater at 7:42

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

So this is how that rarity from Alaska ends up in London England !!

[@indarsamlal4558]

Truly amazing video

[@ms.aikaterini]

thanks for sharing 🙂

[@mickhill7225]

Beautiful!!!

[@annantidote]

Hello Odysseas, great video, I love birds AND ships AND the sea, and even the SOUNDTRACK! I would like to contact you because I would like to use 3sec of your footage (the goldcrest)...

[@johnmills2246]

Great video. Thanks so much for sharing it. Who is the musical artist? I really like her.

[@OdiFroilan]

The band is called "Burning Hearts"

[@ChristianCohn]

What an amazing Video. Wow more of this :-)