Flying Casanovas

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Flying Casanovas
Directed by David Attenborough
Narrated byDavid Attenborough
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PBS
Release date
  • December 25, 2001 (2001-12-25)

Flying Casanovas was a documentary on PBS about the different ways birds try to mate. Flying Casanovas was originally broadcast in 2001.


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