Stephen Fry docu parrot’s romp with presenter gets 500k hits on YouTube
October 8th, 2009
By BEN JACKSON
Published: 07 Oct 2009
FOOTAGE of one of the world’s rarest birds trying to mate with a BBC presenter during a Stephen Fry documentary has become a hit on Twitter.
More than half a million viewers have watched the moment when an endangered New Zealand parrot becomes amorously attracted to British zoologist and wildlife presenter Mark Cawardine on You Tube.
There have been already 15,000 mentions of the clip on Twitter since a BBC2 show aired the show, Last Chance to See, this week.
The programme features the world’s most endangered animals.
Carwardine and actor Stephen Fry had travelled to New ...
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