Building Blinds: Hiding in Plain Sight

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All the high-tech cameras in the world won't capture close-up images of skittish birds without one decidedly low-tech accessory: a filming blind. The blind hides people and equipment so they don't disturb the birds. Here Cornell Lab producer Eric Liner tells how local New Guineans used their intimate knowledge of the rainforest to build sturdy blinds using little more than saplings, vines, and machetes.
Footage and photographs by Tim Laman
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[@francesgreenberg2108]

Thanks for this look behind the scenes. As an amateur, I'm always curious about how the pros go about their work. It is a revelation to see how the high tech tools of the first world can only function with the aid of the simple and clever tools of the third.

[@remyposees]

Backstage is always interesting. Thanks for sharing that too

[@macmarty2025]

Awesome, thank you for uploading.

[@discojelly]

That is amazing!!!

[@NiherRD]

I have been following to both! superb

[@lilBugger35]

Thanks for the vid. Very nice.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

Excellent video! I will try building a blind this weekend.

[@oo2aoo2a]

amazing

[@oliverioespaillat6271]

Amazing

[@wildblueworld]

Hello Eric. What can I possibly do to come ove with you, Tim and Edy, next time you guys travel to PNG? I'm a enthusiastic nature/birds photographer, also SERE survival trained person, won't complain about mosquitoes. Please let me come with 🙏🙏

[@faristoteles5462]

Tim was speaking on bahasa, Does papua newguinean also speak bahasa? Or this scene occured in Indonesian part of the big Papua island?

[@KEFALHAL1]

الاسود اسمه مشاري!!!

[@Harunina7]

what a great teamwork with the native indonesian people :)

[@justinwoodgate3155]

I think you mean Papuan...

[@richardmann1934]

It was indonesian language