Birders With HQ Flight Footage - Joyful Aerial Maneuvers Documentary

Looking for hq video footage of wild birds flying for a documentary project Hello fellow bird-enthusiasts! 😄 I’m a new member here, a film student, and got a question for everyone who films wild birds. Currently, I’m working on my graduation film, a short documentary lead by the question whether birds feel joy while flying. I will explain more about the project itself towards the end of this post, but first my question: I’m looking for high quality video footage of wild birds who are flying, especially when they do these areal maneuvers which seem “purposeless” at first glance. So not with any obvious reasons like mating, hunting, fleeing and so on. But rather moments, in which one might think “the bird must have done this for the pure sake of joy”. I’ve been photographing and filming birds myself since a few years now, but thereby I also learned that this can become complicated if the goal is to get very specific and high resolution/quality forage. Unfortunately I don’t have the very best equipment for the purpose I described earlier, so I was wondering if there are people out there who might be willing to help me out on this endeavor. A few of my own clips are good enough to be used for my project, but I definitely need more than I currently have. As this is a student film, I don’t have any real budget or anything like that, and have to pay everything out of my own pocket. So I can’t offer any payment for the footage, but of course I would list all the names of people who shared their footage with me in the credits of my film. Or maybe we can also find other options to sort something out. Regarding the publishing, at the end of this semester the film will be screened for one week during our graduation exhibition, where friends & family of the students will come, but also people from the town, and in general it is an event that’s open for everyone. Apart from that I’m planning to submit the film to several film festivals, but of course I can’t tell if it gets accepted in the end. In general I can say about the project, that it is about trying to figure out in what ways my question (if birds feel joy while flying) can be answered. Therefore I also interviewed a few experts from different fields (biology, psychology & ecofeminism), and discussed this and other questions with them. Additionally, the film includes topics surrounding the issue of intersectional oppression and the parallels between various forms of discrimination and mistreatment, both between humans, and by humans towards animals. Because, unfortunately too many people still think that animals and certain human minorities are less important/worth/etcetera. In the end, the conclusion will be that from scientific and philosophic perspectives it is very likely that birds feel joy, and also feel while flying – but that as humans, we have a completely different way of experiencing the world.And no matter how much we learn about birds and their emotions, we won’t ever be able to fully understand what birds feel like, and what joy feels like to them. So a kind of open end, supposed to make people think, and get the audience to engage more (deeply) with this and similar topics. And hopefully the film will contribute to the cause of destigmatizing “otherness”, amplifying the empathy of humans towards other species, and to respect and value their lives. As well as consider that emotions, intelligence, and consciousness are not exclusive to humans, and that humans shouldn’t think of themselves as inherently better than all other beings. If I managed to catch the interest of anyone here, please respond to this post or reach out to me via dm. (In the best case as soon as possible, because I only have one more month to finish my project.) I would be extremely grateful about any help, also if anyone got suggestions for other ways to reach people who might want to share their footage for this film. Maybe someone of you also knows other birders who are not part of this subreddit, but who would be interested to get in touch about this. Thank you so much in advance, and I’m very curious about your responses! 😄