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Bird Preening on a Thorny Branch with Cacti (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 perched on a thorny branch preens its feathers. The bird moves its head and beak, adjusting and cleaning its plumage. Cacti are visible in the background, indicating a desert environment.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for documentary, travel edit, nature program, agency mood reel, or social cut needing a close wildlife detail from Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Edit role
A six-second cutaway or insert that can sit between wider desert landscape shots, adding a small wildlife beat of a perched bird preening among thorny branches.
Visual details
A brown bird with streaked plumage perches in bare thorny branches, moves its head and beak through its feathers, with tall green cacti softly visible behind it and no people visible.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera composition holds the bird in the foreground and midground branches, with shallow background cacti creating vertical green texture behind the tangled desert shrub.

Tags

birdcactusbranchthornspreeningpeckingdesertbrowngreencalmnaturalwildlifeperchedaridshrublandscapedroneaerialaerial viewdrone footage

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
38 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.

A brown bird faces left while perched among thorny desert branches, with green cacti blurred in the Cabo Pulmo background and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the bird settled on the branch before the preening action becomes clearer. (0:00)
The perched bird turns its head upward within a web of dry branches, backed by vertical green cactus columns in Cabo Pulmo with no visible people.
This frame catches the bird lifting its head while staying balanced on the thorny branch. (0:01)
A closer view shows the bird angled across the branch with its streaked feathers visible, surrounded by thorny twigs and soft green cacti in Cabo Pulmo, no visible people.
The tighter composition emphasizes the bird's feather texture and the thorny perch. (0:02)
The bird is partly cropped and obscured by foreground branches while perched in the shrub, with the Cabo Pulmo cactus background still visible and no visible people.
This moment shows the bird tucked into the branches, giving the clip a denser scrub texture. (0:03)

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