Holman (July 07/03) - Holman and its Kingalik ducks will be the stars of a Discovery Channel Canada program next year.

Holman resident and 2003 Kingalik King Walter Olifie, front, boils tea while Discovery Channel Canada production co-ordinator Nicole Wiwchar, left, and director Bob Long consult about their next shot. - Erin Fletcher/NNSL photo

A three-person production crew spent 10 days in the hamlet filming the Kingalik (King Eider) duck migration through the Arctic, the community hunt and the annual jamboree in mid-June.

The footage will be included in a 13-part series called Time and Place, said director Bob Long.

The series theme is special events in nature.

Other programs include the polar bear migration through Churchill, Manitoba. It mostly involves wildlife, but touches on some human elements, he said.

"The whole series is about being able to see remote places we probably never would have known about," said camera assistant Ron Jacobs.

Long said Holman residents were really open and helpful.

"They were where we needed them to be," said Long.

"They had an interest in what we were doing," said Jacobs.

Long said the hardest part about the trip was waiting for the ducks.

"The migration was more scattered than typically. We spent a lot of time waiting for the ducks," said Long.