“The Bucks are remarkable people because when they do imprint, they form a bond they can’t break and it means those swans are with them for life.”
Sir David Attenborough
Birds in flight specialists
Lloyd and Rose Buck are the world’s leading authority on trained birds for film and television.
Widely regarded as pioneers in training and handling birds for high-speed in-flight and tracking sequences in film, television and documentaries.
UK bird trainers and suppliers of birds of prey, corvids, owls and waterfowl — for documentary, drama, commercial and stills production. Based near Bristol, working worldwide.
Productions we have worked with
About
Thirty years, over a hundred productions
Lloyd Buck has been training birds for more than thirty years. Over the years he and his wife Rose have been involved with over a hundred different film and television productions. They have a team of birds specially trained for filming both on location and in studio situations. They also regularly train new birds for specific projects.
Lloyd and Rose are the world’s experts at in-flight and tracking filming with birds. We have our own family of birds that we work with exclusively for documentaries, film, drama, commercials and photography projects.
Lily and Luna, our barn owls, seen in the PBS film Owl Power
Expert bird handlers
Lloyd and Rose
Lloyd’s passion for birds began at a very young age and he has been lucky enough to turn it into a long rewarding career. He has an instinctive, intuitive way with the birds, and is also an accomplished wildlife presenter.
Rose was a nursery nurse for many years but with an interest in natural history, and her nurturing, patient nature translates well into imprinting the waterfowl, rearing the starlings and other birds.
“Looking after our birds is not just our career and job, it is a lifestyle, as you have to be there for them seven days a week, but we love it. We describe ourselves as bird behaviourists and handlers, specialising in working with our birds for many TV and film sequences, and because we always make sure the birds enjoy themselves we can get the best out of them without compromising their welfare.”
Lloyd Buck
What we do
Birds trained to fly to camera
In-flight filming
Trained birds flown to order for high-speed, tracking and slow-motion sequences.
On-board camera
HD minicams flown on the birds themselves, for a genuine bird’s-eye perspective.
Archive footage
Existing high-quality in-flight footage, available to license for production.
Contact
Get in touch
Lloyd Buck
lloyd@lloydbuck.co.uk
077603 90917
Jo Sarsby Personal Management Ltd
talks@josarsby.com
www.josarsby.com
0117 927 9423 / 0778 810 8182
Where we are
Near Bristol, in the south west of England.
We film on location worldwide.
Working with us
Tell us what you are trying to film and we will tell you honestly whether it is possible, and how.