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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.



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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.

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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. 



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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"! disbeliefno

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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.

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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

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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!!

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.

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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

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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.






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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!):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p5lc2

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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.hmm At least it gives the conservationists a more accurate picture of the problem

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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.



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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."

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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.

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Spoonievision's about to start on the WWT's site:

http://www.wwt.org.uk/support/our-appeals/spoon-billed-sandpiper/

Behind the scenes looks at their attempts to save the spoon-billed sandpiper.

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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

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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"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05ttkx2/dawn-chorus-the-sounds-of-spring




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There's a new county website! The Borsetshire Birding website

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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. smile

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Usually my first Chiffchaff of the year comes from Ambridge!

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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.

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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

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Two characters on the Archers discussing the unreliability of the wing panel in separating Marsh and Willow Tits. Robert Snell and some other bloke

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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

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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 wink

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If we need a thread on the music of Springwatch then let's make one and keep this one on topic wink

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Tuesday

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Think I missed Lost in the Supermarket - he was going on about tins of beans and stuff

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Springwatch goes Clash - from Monday's programme......

Should I stay or should I go
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Drug stabbing time

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Lots of superb birds in the BBC mini-series called 'Hebrides'. Watch it on iPlayer here:

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.

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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:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s7vtp/The_Living_World_Dawn_Chorus_Day/

It's 22 minutes long.

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The first BBC R4 'Tweet of the Day' programme is now available on iPlayer:

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.



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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!

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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.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rrdd8/iPM_13_04_2013/



and here: http://birds-ath.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/peters-starring-on-radio.html

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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

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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.

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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.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rrdd8/iPM_13_04_2013/

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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.





Very good it was too!!
I just wish there were still 700 Golden Plover around GM!!

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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.

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'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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'Guide to moorland birds' on Radio 4 all week at 1.45.
Monday was Grouse, Merlin, Short Eared Owl.

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Jim talking about the Loch Garten osprey whilst doing some birding in Ambridge a few days ago on the Archers...

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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


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007xnvt/100_Years_of_Wildlife_Films/




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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.

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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.











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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.

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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!

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Earthflight


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,

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RE: Birds on the Radio, BBC iPlayer and iTunes (Podcasts etc)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sds35/Ten_Rare_Men/

Beauty of the internet means we can listen to it whenever we want!

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Ridiculously late I know, but 11.30 tonight Radio 4 has a programme on the rare birds panel. Hooray for i-player.

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Second episode of earthflight, on iplayer, amazing series, , birds eye views, cameras actually on the birds to see what they see, how they hunt, interact, some unbelievable slow motion photography, i thought it was amazing, part 1, seeing ospreys in senegal plucking bits from a dead fish and then sharing it by passing food to a slender billed gull, never seen stuff like that before, large migration of birds being followed like, flamingos, snow geese, swallows, well worth a look,


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01983dp/Earthflight_Africa/

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