Butterfly forest | Spy in the Wild

Duration: 1'60''

Synopsis

As winter ends in Mexico one of the most beautiful spectacles in nature erupts as a cascade of half a billion monarch butterflies begin to take flight, captured by our Spy Hummingbird.

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