Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence , was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in the new HBO drama Task . It’s almost as if the pandemic-era surge in birding has finally worked its way through the writers room and onto the screen.

But the best birding media of 2025 isn’t on a streaming service. It’s available for free, without ads, on YouTube. There, a documentary made by two hilarious young Midwestern brothers has become the most talked-about birding movie in ages, and is putting a whole new side of the hobby on screen. Even better, it’s finding fans even among non-birders: One of the video’s top comments, with more than 2,000 likes, reads, “You didn’t star

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