Wallcreeper - Master of the Cliffs | Documentary from Pálava region | Czech Republic

🦋 Subtle yet fascinating. A bird that moves across cliffs with the grace of a butterfly.
Meet the Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) - a unique species that visits Czech region Pálava every winter.
This tiny acrobat with striking red wings is one of the rare winter visitors. While its natural habitat includes the Alps, Carpathians, and even the Himalayas, it descends to lower elevations in the cold months in search of food hidden in rock crevices. Its surgically precise beak allows it to extract insects from the narrowest cracks.
📍 What will you see in this video?
✔ How the Wallcreeper survives winter in Pálava
✔ How it hunts spiders, flies, and small insects
✔ How it moves so effortlessly across rocky surfaces
🎥 Filming this master of the cliffs was no easy task. Constant motion, unpredictable jumps, and sudden movements - sometimes you wait just 5 minutes, other times 15 hours. But spotting this tiny traveler between mountains and lowlands is an unforgettable experience.
The entire video capturing the Wallcreeper was filmed in slow motion - truly a challenging shoot.
During the filming, besides the dozens of people who came to witness this beauty, I was accompanied by my friend Josef Cink and Petr Šimon, whom I met on location. And as they say, time flies when you're having fun - so the long hours of waiting for those few precious seconds when the Wallcreeper flew within at least 15 meters went by as swiftly as the wind over beautiful Pálava.
🎥 Some details about this video 🎥
▶ 500 km of driving
▶ 15 hours of waiting in freezing yet sunny weather
▶ I filmed around 15 minutes of Wallcreeper footage on a Panasonic Lumix GH7 with a Panasonic 100-400mm lens, which I then edited down to the final version you see in this video. Most of the shots were much longer, but I had to trim everything down - I didn’t want the viewers to fall asleep! 😅
▶ The closest shot was from about 10 meters, while the farthest was around 20 meters.
▶ Post-production: Editing, color grading, writing and recording narration, creating subtitles, and preparing the video description - in total, it took me about 12 hours of work on the computer.
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Moc hezké

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Nádhera. Krásné video. 🍀Pavel🦊

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Diky Pavle

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Veľmi pekné video. Pozdravujem.

[@johobirding]

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Krása👍

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Diky moc

[@lukasvebr5103]

Narazil jsem na video náhodou. Pěkně zpracované 🙂. Hodně sleduji zahraniční tvúrce a jsem rád ,že mohu sledovat i český kanál o české přírodě. Dávám odběr a budu se těšit na další videa 👍👋

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Dobry den, jasne, pamatuju si! Diky moc

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Krásný ptáček

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Malej ale sikovnej :)

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Krásný video 🙏

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Diky moc!

[@TondaPhotographer]

Zdravím Tomáši. Super dokument, skvěle zpracované video. Díky, že jsem mohl být u toho, jak jsi to natáčel. Ahoj Tonda.

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@@TondaPhotographer moc diky Tondo, cenim si toho. U vas je krasne prostě cely rok. Zednicek ve zlate hodince, co vic si prat!

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Už několik let toužím spatřit tento klenot 🙂

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@@tohlenic-sc8mp teď mate jedinečnou příležitost než odletí, jen si vyberte pěkné počasí, na Pálavě to navíc muzete spojit s okolím jako jsou třeba Nové mlýny.

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Zdravim u nás sa murarikom cervenochvostym zaoberá panJaniga má tiež pekné filmy z pozorovania tohto krásneho vtáčnika ale myslím že u nás je odlietavy aj vaše video bolo úžasné veľká vďaka ❤❤❤

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@@LudovitPriwitzer dekuju, jsem moc rad, ze se vam video libilo 🍀