Award-winning wildlife filmmakers David Parer & Elizabeth Parer-Cook have worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Natural History Unit for the last 35 years. They are keen still photographers and have filmed and photographed all around the world - from Antarctica to Papua New Guinea, Patagonia to Norway and over much of Australia.

They have developed and used many special camera techniques to capture rarely seen behaviour including displays of birds of paradise, the birth of a tammar wallaby, coral spawning and emperor penguins breeding during the Antarctic winter.

They produced and filmed three of the six ”Nature of Australia” documentaries for Australia's Bicentennial celebrations and in 1992 won an Emmy for “Wolves of the Sea” - a documentary about killer whales. ”Mysteries of the Ocean Wanderers” documented the life of wandering albatross in light of the first satellite tracking work of their travels at sea and won a Gold Panda at Wildscreen. And in 1990 Liz’s picture of a Galapagos Penguin won The Underwater World section of The British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

In 1995, David and Elizabeth spent several years in the Galapagos producing films on marine and land iguanas called “Dragons of the Galapagos” ; “Islands of the Vampire Finches” about the evolution of Darwin’s Finches; and a “making-of” film about the family’s adventures in this wildlife paradise.

Since then they have filmed platypus courtship and the secret life of their young in the burrow; battle-scarred Tasmanian Devils; and most recently thirty of Australia’s parrots and cockatoos including the rarely seen Palm Cockatoo and Eclectus Parrot for a program entitled “Australia: Land of Parrots”.

Liz and David have been with AUSCAPE since 1988 and their photographs have been published in Geo, Australian Geographic, BBC Wildlife and National Geographic.