Hilarious Video: Attenborough interrupted by Bird of Paradise

When it comes to presenting wildlife documentaries, we all know you can’t outdo David Attenborough – but this rowdy bird of paradise has a pretty good go at it.

Thanks to all of its squawking and melodramatic tail-flouncing, it took several takes for Sir David to get the sequence just right for his latest project ‘Birds of Paradise’.

But the legendary naturalist is used to dealing with these avian show-offs – he first tracked them across the mountains of New Guinea for the Zoo Quest franchise all the way back in the 1950s.

This video was first published by Earth Touch on 27 Jan 2015.