During the movie, we see this same bird a few times. The piece of the net reminds us that people can take care of  wild animals and hurt them at the same time.  The person who left the fishing net did not mean to hurt the bird.  Many birds are hurt unintentionally by humans. They get hit by cars, caught in nets, caught by dogs and cats, or harmed by pollution.  On the other hand, people set aside land for wildlife sanctuaries, clean birds after oil spills and do other things to help birds.

The movie shows many kinds of migrating birds, including pelicans, penguins, geese, ducks and swans in many different habitats.  Sometimes you see the birds far away and sometimes very close up.  I thought the photography was pretty cool, especially with the different backgrounds.  They used trained birds they had raised themselves to get these shots.  They wanted the birds to get used to the engine noise and the cameras so they could get close shots.  Then they boxed up the birds and shipped them to the places to film.

It took the film makers four years of travel, 400 km of film and 240 hours of screen time to make a movie that ended up 89 minutes long.  In fact, it could take two months to get the footage they needed for just one minute of the final movie!

The movie was really neat.  I especially liked the parts when they filmed in the sky.  In some parts, you almost feel like you are flying with the birds.  I also like the part where they showed the horses stampeding.  At the end, you see the goose with the fish net again as it comes back to the stream.  You see the boy, too.  You know they are back home until the next migration.