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Desert Bird Perching and Taking Flight (Cabo Pulmo, 2023)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Desert Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2023
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About this clip

A bird perches on a cactus branch in a dry, sandy desert. It flaps its wings and takes flight, then returns to the branch. The sequence captures the bird's natural movement among desert vegetation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, Baja California Sur travel edits, conservation pieces, social cutdowns, and agency mood reels needing a small desert bird among cactus and dry scrub.
Edit role
Works as a six-second cutaway or insert between wider Cabo Pulmo desert landscape shots, adding a living wildlife beat before returning to roads, terrain, or habitat coverage.
Visual details
A small pale desert bird perches on a ribbed cactus branch among spiny cactus trunks and bare twigs, with sandy rocky ground behind it and no visible people in frame.
Shot mechanics
The clip uses a tight ground-camera composition through foreground cactus and branches, with the bird held in the midground against a soft sandy background.

Tags

birdcactusdesertperchingtakingflightdrysandybrancheswingsmovementnaturalwildlifenestrockyshrubshabitatpercheddroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
26 MB
Location
Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2023
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Small pale bird perched on a ribbed cactus branch in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with cactus spines and dry twigs in front and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the bird settled in a tight cactus habitat view. (0:00)
The bird raises dark and pale wings from the cactus perch in Cabo Pulmo, with thorny cactus stems crossing the frame and no visible people.
This frame captures the first clear wing movement while the bird stays near the branch. (0:01)
The cactus perch sits briefly empty in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with spiny green stems, bare twigs, sandy ground, and no visible people.
The empty perch shows the moment after the bird has moved out of the tight frame. (0:02)
The bird is back on the cactus branch in Cabo Pulmo, sitting lower in the frame behind crossing spines and dry twigs with no visible people.
This frame shows the bird returned to the perch after the brief flight beat. (0:03)

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.