Earthsounds – Club Winged Manakin

Ep3: Rainforests - Club Winged Manakins (Ecuador)

Click here to watch from 16m55s

Also filmed: Orca & Sea Lions (Argentina)

A chimpanzee in a lush green forest holding a stick, with graphic circular soundwave overlays and the text "Apple TV+ EARTHSOUNDS Hear our planet like never before."

Earthsounds – Club Winged Manakin

Ep3: Rainforests - Club Winged Manakins (Ecuador)

Click here to watch from 16m55s

Also filmed: Orca & Sea Lions (Argentina)

A butterfly with its wings spread perched on a tree branch with green leaves and blurred foliage in the background.
A bird with butterfly wings perched upside down on a tree branch with green leaves in the background.
A gorilla holding a tree branch in a lush jungle with overlay of concentric circles and the logo for Apple TV+ and EarthSounds, with the tagline 'Hear our planet like never before.'

In 2021 I went to Ecuador to capture a new to science behaviour. The way in which the Club Winged Manakin uses their wings to produce their high pitched call. This required the Phantom 4k Flex with a high speed light to capture these wing stridulations at 800fps. The result was never before seen slow mo footage of the specific mechanism behind the call. No one had witnessed in detail this exact mechanism before myself so seeing this down my camera viewfinder when playing back the footage was a career highlight for me!