Birds on the Radio, BBC iPlayer and iTunes (Podcasts etc)
Chris Harper said
Thu Jul 25 6:29 PM, 2024
Nice radio 3 series last week called The Sounds of Wild Poland...now on BBC sounds. I particularly liked episode 2 with a duetting Cuckoo and Black Woodpecker.
Chris Harper said
Fri Feb 11 8:27 AM, 2022
Great programme on world Service started last Wednesday and for the next 4 weeks at 9am called 'It's a Bird's world' presented by Mya Rose-Craig and having a different environmental theme each week.
On BBC sounds. Very interesting science.
Mike Chorley said
Sat Oct 23 10:21 PM, 2021
BBC Breakfast this morning (23/10/21). "in other news" a report with photo of a sighting of a Shelley's Eagle Owlin Ghana.....a mere 120 years after the last one, it seems.
Peter Nolan Woolley said
Mon Jun 7 6:53 PM, 2021
Finally got around to watching this year's Springwatch on catch up. There is an item regarding Black - headed Gulls about 20 minutes into the first episode. BBC dipped on a pair of Adult Mediterranean Gull @ 23:44. minutes.
In this case the wrong birds! Last week there was a piece on Antiques Roadshow about the Peregrines nesting on site - cue shot of a Common Buzzard, then followed by a Peregrine. It was made clear that the team failed to see the birds on the day, so this was presumably stock footage. Today in a Travel Show segment on the landscape-scale rewilding in the Cairngorms a pair of Griffon Vultures flew through a report on the Loch Garten Ospreys. To paraphrase an old Rice/Lloyd-Webber song "Any bird will do"!
Mike Chorley said
Wed Mar 17 8:45 PM, 2021
Some nice footage of a Regent Honeycreeper on BBC Breakfast. Unfortunately, featured because there are now so few (c300) that they very rarely hear each other call and are starting to imitate other species. Birds in captivity (hopefully a breeding programme) are being played their calls to refresh their memory. Footage at start of programme at 6:13 on Iplayer.
dave broome said
Thu Jan 7 8:52 AM, 2021
Kit Jewitt (@YOLOBirder on Twitter) has launched a podcast, Golden Grenades, in which birders talk about their five favourite species. David Lindo is on the first episode, available online now
Charles Farrell said
Tue Apr 21 11:33 AM, 2020
Not on the radio exactly, but hopefully considered to be appropriate to this thread.
Today (Tuesday 21st April) at 7PM [Quote]Alan Davies is with Ruth Miller. We are all set for our live question and answer session on Glaslyn Osprey Group Facebook page tomorrow 7pm on Tuesday 21 April. We are looking for questions from you the lovely folks of Facebook. You can join us on the night which would be brilliant or ask a question here in the comment section and we can answer it on air. No holds barred just fire away with those questions you have always wanted to ask! Any bird/birding related topics but we are happy to have a go at anything you throw at us!!
also, my friend David Lindo (The Urban Birder) is doing some webinars over Zoom with various interesting personalities from the Birding and Wildlife world, while he is holed up in Extremadura. Already he has spoken with Iolo Williams (Friday) and Dawn Balmer of the BTO yesterday. More are lined up as follows:
Tuesday 21st April: Darren Woodhead (Wildlife Artist) Wed 22nd April: Chris Watson (David Attenborough's soundman) Thurs 23rd April:Kenn Kaufman (american Birder) Fri 24th April: Jason Ward (American Birder) https://theurbanbirderworld.com/live-webinars/
more are planned for the following weeks.
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dave broome said
Tue Apr 21 9:36 AM, 2020
The Extinction Tapes, 15 min programme, this episode about White-Tailed Eagles in the UK, currently on Radio 4 and will be available on BBC Sounds
Keith Mills said
Tue Mar 5 10:32 AM, 2019
The new dab station SCALA RADIO is asking the question, this morning:
how high do Larks ascend?
aka "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams
The answer given by a listener for Skylark was 1000 feet.
This lines up with a Wildlife Trust article I have found that gives
300metres.
Im quite surprise.
-- Edited by Keith Mills on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 04:29:44 PM
David Morris said
Thu May 11 7:33 PM, 2017
On BBC Inside Science today they had a report about a study into Great Tits having different personalities. Think it's about 14 minutes in (after the bit about violins!):
The piece on using NASA tech to count Northern Royal Albatrosses mentioned by Rob was on BBC Breakfast and 6 p.m. news as well, so will be available on Iplayer for 24 hrs. Worryingly actual numbers are lower than estimated. At least it gives the conservationists a more accurate picture of the problem
dave broome said
Thu May 4 1:40 PM, 2017
This Sunday 7th May BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a dawn chorus programme from 12:30am until 7:00 am, presumably including live broadcasts. It will be available on iPlayer later.
Nick Hilton said
Wed Jun 22 9:08 PM, 2016
Life on the East Asian Flyway;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wpkd8
4 x 1/2hr programmes;
"One of the great wonders of the natural world is in deep trouble.
Millions of shorebirds fly from Australia and Southeast Asia to the Arctic every year. They follow the planets most gruelling migratory route the East Asian Australasian Flyway.
Join Ann Jones as she watches wading birds such as curlews, godwits and sandpipers prepare for their epic journey. They fatten up on clams to the point of obesity, to fuel the flight. They grow bigger hearts and flight muscles. Just before departure, they shrink their digestive organs to become the most efficient flying machines for their first 7 day non-stop flight.
The birds lives are full of danger and the most serious threats are man-made. The flyway is in peril with many species plummeting towards extinction. As youll hear, its enough to make a grown man cry."
Tim Wilcox said
Tue Mar 22 6:42 PM, 2016
BBC Radio 4's 'Claire in the Community' has 'The Sparrowhawk Estate' - a rundown hellhole of crime doubtless inspired by the real life Blackbird Leys estate on the non-dreaming spires side of Oxford.
Behind the scenes looks at their attempts to save the spoon-billed sandpiper.
Tim Wilcox said
Thu Jun 4 9:33 PM, 2015
Actually on Twitter but still media... The BTO just tweeted #springwatch a pic of their 'oldest Swift' taken by none other than Dennis Atherton. Nice pic Dennis
David Kaye said
Mon May 18 10:35 AM, 2015
Dawn chorus. Still available on iPlayer. To quote the blurb"Uninterrupted and unspoiled by voiceover or music, the birdsong of sunrise in all its glory. Three different habitats, Britain's woodland, heathland and parkland, burst into song"
There's a new county website! The Borsetshire Birding website
Tony Darby said
Mon Mar 23 5:39 PM, 2015
Latest birding news from Ambridge:
Robert Snell spotted a couple of Mediterranean Gulls by the treatment plant and has asked Eddie Grundy not to mention it to Jim, Robert's birding rival. Eddie, of course, couldn't give a monkey's; the only birds he has any interest in are the turkeys he rears to sell at Christmas.
JamieDunning said
Wed Feb 18 11:52 PM, 2015
Usually my first Chiffchaff of the year comes from Ambridge!
Tony Darby said
Wed Feb 18 3:34 PM, 2015
There's no shame in being an Archers listener Jamie, and therapy is available these days. Anyway, Sabrina aught to be grateful to have such a good garden tick as Grey Wagtail.
JamieDunning said
Wed Feb 18 1:05 PM, 2015
Jim Lloyde - there is a bit of story line developing where they are both year-listing and becoming increasingly competitive. Jim was in trouble last week for peeping into Sabrinas garden to catch a glimpse of a Grey Wagtail...
I'd rather not answer any questions on how I know that. Cheers all
Tim Wilcox said
Thu Feb 5 7:14 PM, 2015
Two characters on the Archers discussing the unreliability of the wing panel in separating Marsh and Willow Tits. Robert Snell and some other bloke
Tony Darby said
Thu Feb 5 5:48 PM, 2015
The Inside Science program on R4 this afto' had an interesting feature on the hunting tactics of Northern Goshawks. Here's a link to BBC iPlayer Radio.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05126zf
sid ashton said
Sun Oct 26 8:21 PM, 2014
Just listened to a really good programme on playback that was on BBC Radio 4 this morning at 06.35 called The Living World. This edition was about Nightjars - very well put together, could almost feel the mosquitoes biting
Ian McKerchar said
Wed May 29 5:25 AM, 2013
If we need a thread on the music of Springwatch then let's make one and keep this one on topic
Tony Coatsworth said
Wed May 29 5:04 AM, 2013
Tuesday
Complete Control Magnificent 7 Groovy Times
Think I missed Lost in the Supermarket - he was going on about tins of beans and stuff
Tony Coatsworth said
Wed May 29 2:55 AM, 2013
Springwatch goes Clash - from Monday's programme......
Should I stay or should I go Remote Control Hitsville UK Drug stabbing time
Martyn Jones said
Tue May 14 11:44 PM, 2013
Lots of superb birds in the BBC mini-series called 'Hebrides'. Watch it on iPlayer here:
Now up to episode 2 with episode 3 on Monday 20th May at 9pm on BBC 1.
Martyn Jones said
Tue May 7 5:33 AM, 2013
As Chris Harper mentioned previously, yesterday (05/05/13) was 'International Dawn Chorus Day' and here's the link to the BBC R4 'The Living World' programme about it:
It's introduced by David Attenborough and lasts about 2 minutes.
Chris Harper said
Thu May 2 3:44 AM, 2013
Also on Radio4, Sun am at 6.35 new series of Living World. Last Sun about Golden Pheasants in Breckland, next about Dawn Chorus Day. Not that I'm awake then. The benefits of i-player!
Martyn Jones said
Thu Apr 25 9:52 PM, 2013
Adrian Dancy wrote:
Martyn Jones wrote:
Peter Baron, a well-known local Birder, educator and recorder for Elton in Bury, is to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's iPM programme at 5:30pm tomorrow (Saturday 13th April). Peter has an incredible knowledge of birds and he is very entertaining with it, so it should be a good listen. I'll try to download or record the programme and I'll make it available through my websites if I'm successful. It may also be available on iPlayer for a while too.
and here: http://birds-ath.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/peters-starring-on-radio.html
Martyn Jones said
Thu Apr 25 9:50 PM, 2013
dave broome wrote:
Beginning on May 6th, Radio 4 will be starting a new series of ninety second broadcasts featuring new recordings of British birds, every weekday morning at 05:58, running for a year. Each 'episode' will feature a different species.
I believe it's being called 'Tweet of the Day' - argghh!
Details here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
dave broome said
Thu Apr 25 2:12 AM, 2013
Beginning on May 6th, Radio 4 will be starting a new series of ninety second broadcasts featuring new recordings of British birds, every weekday morning at 05:58, running for a year. Each 'episode' will feature a different species.
Adrian Dancy said
Thu Apr 18 6:49 PM, 2013
Martyn Jones wrote:
Peter Baron, a well-known local Birder, educator and recorder for Elton in Bury, is to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's iPM programme at 5:30pm tomorrow (Saturday 13th April). Peter has an incredible knowledge of birds and he is very entertaining with it, so it should be a good listen. I'll try to download or record the programme and I'll make it available through my websites if I'm successful. It may also be available on iPlayer for a while too.
Peter Baron, a well-known local Birder, educator and recorder for Elton in Bury, is to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's iPM programme at 5:30pm tomorrow (Saturday 13th April). Peter has an incredible knowledge of birds and he is very entertaining with it, so it should be a good listen. I'll try to download or record the programme and I'll make it available through my websites if I'm successful. It may also be available on iPlayer for a while too.
Very good it was too!! I just wish there were still 700 Golden Plover around GM!!
Martyn Jones said
Sat Apr 13 12:55 AM, 2013
Peter Baron, a well-known local Birder, educator and recorder for Elton in Bury, is to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's iPM programme at 5:30pm tomorrow (Saturday 13th April). Peter has an incredible knowledge of birds and he is very entertaining with it, so it should be a good listen. I'll try to download or record the programme and I'll make it available through my websites if I'm successful. It may also be available on iPlayer for a while too.
dave broome said
Tue Feb 12 7:48 PM, 2013
'Saving Species' on Radio 4 today is worth catching on iPlayer for an interesting piece on the slightly depressing, but ongoing search for Slender-Billed Curlew
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Chris Harper said
Tue Jan 8 3:52 AM, 2013
'Guide to moorland birds' on Radio 4 all week at 1.45. Monday was Grouse, Merlin, Short Eared Owl.
JamieDunning said
Thu Sep 13 1:27 AM, 2012
Jim talking about the Loch Garten osprey whilst doing some birding in Ambridge a few days ago on the Archers...
Dennis atherton said
Sat Sep 1 1:54 AM, 2012
On iplayer, 100 years of wildlife film making, i enjoyed it, good to see the first wildlife film made in 1907, lots of footage of birds, some classics by Attenborough and some stuff i hadent seen before, two hours long all host by the one and only Bill Oddie
Thanks to the Manx Birder for putting me on to a BBC Radio 4 programme " The Alien Birds Have Landed". Just a 15 minute broadcast at 1.45pm each day this week discusses "none" British species. Today was on about Little Owls and Eagle Owls, very interesting, listen on BBC iPlayer.
Tony Darby said
Sat Aug 4 5:32 AM, 2012
Also worth listening to on Radio 4 iPlayer (1st broadcast this Tuesday) is the 'Nature' programme 'Bird Wars On Malta'. As you might expect, it's about the wonderful tradition amongst certain Maltese 'hunters' of blasting migrating birds out of the sky with shotguns. The programme also focuses on a German birding group who are trying to keep an eye on the illegal shooters. It's worth a listen.
Chris Harper said
Fri Aug 3 5:02 PM, 2012
Worth listening to Open Country on Radio 4 yesterday at 3pm. The 'Urban Birder' David Lindow and others put the case for wildlife watching in cities. Interesting listen.
Joe Wynn said
Fri Jan 13 11:23 PM, 2012
Have to say, earthflight was a bit of a mixed bag. I personally didn't mind the simplistic narration, but the camerawork was brilliant in places (like with the martins) as the birds just came into focus then out again. In other places like with the polar bears it was like they were miles away shooting through heat haze! Still really good stuff though!
Dennis atherton said
Fri Jan 13 7:59 PM, 2012
Part 3 Europe
Some top filming again this time showing cranes, white stork, barnacle geese, brent geese, swallows and others, superb behaviour showing arctic tern, skuas and geese coming together trying to ward of a bear, slow motion captures of swallows and sand martings catching mayflys, feathers, gannets diving, ospreys fishing, peregrine chasing starlings, a great series,
Nice radio 3 series last week called The Sounds of Wild Poland...now on BBC sounds. I particularly liked episode 2 with a duetting Cuckoo and Black Woodpecker.
Great programme on world Service started last Wednesday and for the next 4 weeks at 9am called 'It's a Bird's world' presented by Mya Rose-Craig and having a different environmental theme each week.
On BBC sounds. Very interesting science.
Finally got around to watching this year's Springwatch on catch up. There is an item regarding Black - headed Gulls about 20 minutes into the first episode. BBC dipped on a pair of Adult Mediterranean Gull @ 23:44. minutes.
Today (Tuesday 21st April) at 7PM
[Quote]Alan Davies is with Ruth Miller.
We are all set for our live question and answer session on Glaslyn Osprey Group Facebook page tomorrow 7pm on Tuesday 21 April. We are looking for questions from you the lovely folks of Facebook. You can join us on the night which would be brilliant or ask a question here in the comment section and we can answer it on air. No holds barred just fire away with those questions you have always wanted to ask! Any bird/birding related topics but we are happy to have a go at anything you throw at us!!
https://www.facebook.com/BywydGwylltGlaslynWildlife - Its a private group, so you will have to join the Facebook Group first
also, my friend David Lindo (The Urban Birder) is doing some webinars over Zoom with various interesting personalities from the Birding and Wildlife world, while he is holed up in Extremadura. Already he has spoken with Iolo Williams (Friday) and Dawn Balmer of the BTO yesterday. More are lined up as follows:
Tuesday 21st April: Darren Woodhead (Wildlife Artist)
Wed 22nd April: Chris Watson (David Attenborough's soundman)
Thurs 23rd April:Kenn Kaufman (american Birder)
Fri 24th April: Jason Ward (American Birder)
https://theurbanbirderworld.com/live-webinars/
more are planned for the following weeks.
-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:35:49 AM
-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:36:10 AM
-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:40:42 AM
The new dab station SCALA RADIO is asking the question, this morning:
how high do Larks ascend?
aka "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams
The answer given by a listener for Skylark was 1000 feet.
This lines up with a Wildlife Trust article I have found that gives
300metres.
Im quite surprise.
-- Edited by Keith Mills on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 04:29:44 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p5lc2
This Sunday 7th May BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a dawn chorus programme from 12:30am until 7:00 am, presumably including live broadcasts. It will be available on iPlayer later.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wpkd8
4 x 1/2hr programmes;
"One of the great wonders of the natural world is in deep trouble.
Millions of shorebirds fly from Australia and Southeast Asia to the Arctic every year. They follow the planets most gruelling migratory route the East Asian Australasian Flyway.
Join Ann Jones as she watches wading birds such as curlews, godwits and sandpipers prepare for their epic journey. They fatten up on clams to the point of obesity, to fuel the flight. They grow bigger hearts and flight muscles. Just before departure, they shrink their digestive organs to become the most efficient flying machines for their first 7 day non-stop flight.
The birds lives are full of danger and the most serious threats are man-made. The flyway is in peril with many species plummeting towards extinction. As youll hear, its enough to make a grown man cry."
http://www.wwt.org.uk/support/our-appeals/spoon-billed-sandpiper/
Behind the scenes looks at their attempts to save the spoon-billed sandpiper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05ttkx2/dawn-chorus-the-sounds-of-spring
Robert Snell spotted a couple of Mediterranean Gulls by the treatment plant and has asked Eddie Grundy not
to mention it to Jim, Robert's birding rival. Eddie, of course, couldn't give a monkey's; the only birds he has
any interest in are the turkeys he rears to sell at Christmas.
Anyway, Sabrina aught to be grateful to have such a good garden tick as Grey Wagtail.
I'd rather not answer any questions on how I know that.
Cheers all
Northern Goshawks.
Here's a link to BBC iPlayer Radio.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05126zf
Complete Control
Magnificent 7
Groovy Times
Think I missed Lost in the Supermarket - he was going on about tins of beans and stuff
Should I stay or should I go
Remote Control
Hitsville UK
Drug stabbing time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p014g3vx/Hebrides_Islands_on_the_Edge_Episode_1/
Now up to episode 2 with episode 3 on Monday 20th May at 9pm on BBC 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s7vtp/The_Living_World_Dawn_Chorus_Day/
It's 22 minutes long.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s6y1h/Tweet_of_the_Day_Cuckoo_Male/
It's introduced by David Attenborough and lasts about 2 minutes.
Not that I'm awake then. The benefits of i-player!
and here: http://birds-ath.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/peters-starring-on-radio.html
I believe it's being called 'Tweet of the Day' - argghh!
Details here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rrdd8/iPM_13_04_2013/
Very good it was too!!
I just wish there were still 700 Golden Plover around GM!!
-- Edited by dave broome on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 10:09:14 PM
Monday was Grouse, Merlin, Short Eared Owl.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007xnvt/100_Years_of_Wildlife_Films/
expect, it's about the wonderful tradition amongst certain Maltese 'hunters' of blasting migrating birds out of the sky with shotguns.
The programme also focuses on a German birding group who are trying to keep an eye on the illegal shooters.
It's worth a listen.
Some top filming again this time showing cranes, white stork, barnacle geese, brent geese, swallows and others, superb behaviour showing arctic tern, skuas and geese coming together trying to ward of a bear, slow motion captures of swallows and sand martings catching mayflys, feathers, gannets diving, ospreys fishing, peregrine chasing starlings, a great series,
Beauty of the internet means we can listen to it whenever we want!