Birds (advertisement) compositing video of the birds in their harnesses with video of the gliders in flight. Birds (advertisement) "Birds" is an award-winning television commercial for the Washington Lottery; it won a Silver Lion at the 2009 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, and "Best in Show" at the 2009 National ADDY Awards. "SHOOT" magazine placed it on their Top 10 list for Summer 2008. First broadcast in June 2008, it depicts three flightless birds—a penguin, a chicken, and an emu—being taken hang-gliding (the chicken and the penguin are shown wearing harnesses strapped to the chest of the glider pilots; the emu's harness
Southern black tit Southern black tit The southern black tit or simply black tit ("Melaniparus niger") is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae, which is native to woodland habitats in southern Africa. It occurs chiefly in tropical and subtropical savanna woodland, in a semicircular arc from Angola to the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It prefers woodland dominated by broad-leaved trees, most importantly miombo, "Combretum" species, and "Burkea africana". It is especially common in the woodlands of western Zimbabwe, where densities can reach as high as fifty birds per square kilometre. The southern black tit, unlike parids of the Northern Hemisphere