The most-viewed video of all time on YouTube is “Evolution of Dance,” six minutes of shake-your-tailfeather action recapping the American way of getting down. The most-viewed video of all time on birdcinema.com? “Great Horned Owl Fledgling,” 59 seconds of, well, just what you might think. Except with a lot less tailfeather shaking.
For the millions of birdwatchers in the United States, though, that kind of footage is pure gold. The brainchild of Doug Myers, CEO of ACR International, an electronic database company, Birdcinema.com launched in June with the ambition of becoming YouTube for the bird set, hosting videos uploaded by some of the 46 million Americans for whom bird watching is a cherished pursuit. The site currently offers video file sharing for bird enthusiasts, but Myers and his colleagues want to expand it to become the primary source for bird video. “Our goal is to obtain footage of every species in the world and offer information on these birds, how to find them and where to go,” Myers says.
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