Lloyd and Rose Buck

Expert bird handlers and wildlife presenters

Bird handlers

Lloyd and his wife Rose live an exceptional life hand-raising, imprinting, and training all types of birds (from starlings and geese to peregrine falcons and eagles) for feature films, documentaries, drama, commercials, and photography projects.

“Looking after our birds is a not just our career and job, it’s a lifestyle. We have to be there for them seven days a week. But we absolutely love it,” says Lloyd.

As skilled avian behaviourists and handlers, they often train new birds for specific commissions and productions.

Recent work includes the use of their Goshawk in series two of Animal (Netflix), and their starlings in the Amazon Christmas advert 2021 and as well as in Tiny Worlds (Apple TV).

Their hugely popular peregrine falcons were featured on Natural World: Super Fast Falcon (BBC Two)

Their birds have also appeared on Life in the Air (BBC One), Animal Planet. Credit for the BBC include Sir David Attenborough – Conquest of the Skies, Attenborough’s Life Stories: Understanding the Natural World, In Search of Colour BBC, Carol Vorderman – The Flying Engineer, Nature’s Weirdest, Poldark, and Super Powered Owls. Earlier credits include Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature, the Wallander TV series, The Fades, Deadly 60 and Live and Deadly.

Their birds have also featured in music videos for the band Stornoway, adverts for Freederm, the RSPB and Samsung and Disney.

Mice handlers

Known throughout the industry for their birds, Lloyd and Rose now have two wood mice: Sage and Onion, who are suitable for filming on small studio sets.

Presenters

Lloyd and Rose have also appeared in front of the camera. Lloyd is well known to viewers as a bird expert and regular contributor on BBC’s The One Show and the popular Autumnwatch and Springwatch programmes. 

Lloyd also appeared in the TV movie documentary Joanna Lumley: The Search for Noah’s Ark and in the ground-breaking series The Animal’s Guide to Britain. Other on-screen performances include the action-packed science adventure film The Falcon that flew with Man, Blue Peter, and the fascinating British wildlife series, Will Work for Nuts. 

Their archive footage library is available at Birds in Slow Motion.

Theatre show

In 2018, Lloyd and Rose completed their first theatre show Our Life with Birds which they performed again in 2020 as a live steam.Lloyd & Rose Buck

Pictures courtesy of: John Waters.