[Posted by Chuck Almdale]

Anyone interested in birds, biology, or human existence, should find this series fascinating. It consists of 12 short films, from three to seventeen minutes each, averaging about six minutes. They’re free, on vimeo. If you have gmail or a google account, log on with that. Watch them in sequence.

“Natural History… presents problems as vast, as intricate, as interesting as any to which the human mind can be directed, whose objects are as infinite as the stars of heaven, and infinitely diversified, and whose field of research extends over the whole earth, not only as it now exists, but also during the countless changes it has undergone from the earliest geological epochs.” — Alfred Russel Wallace

From the website: https://www.thecloseryoulook.com/
Evolution is the most powerful, revealing, transformative, inevitable truth that humans have ever discovered. Andrew Berry, Lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, takes you behind the scenes to explore groundbreaking research in evolutionary biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a renowned research center not open to the public. Harvard scientists reveal the inner workings of the evolutionary process and ponder challenging questions about who we are and where we came from. The film demonstrates the rewards of patient, rigorous, detailed observation. The closer you look, the more you see. 
The film’s twelve captivating episodes give a clear understanding of how evolution works and why we know it’s true. 

“There is grandeur in this view of life… from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
— Charles Darwin

Their chapter guide is below. https://www.thecloseryoulook.com/chapterguide

“Nothing in biology makes sense unless in the light of evolution.”
— Theodosius Dobzhansky, Geneticist and Evolutionary Biologist