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Birds in Britain: American Tourists

on BBC Home Service Basic

A monthly series

Introduced by James Fisher

Many American wild birds cross the Atlantic every year. Where do they come from? How? And why? Four ornithologists discuss these questions: K. Williamson, Migration Research Officer of the B.T.O.; I.J. Ferguson-Lees, Executive Editor of British Birds; I.C.T. Nisbet, recently back from America;
F. King, of County Kerry, Eire

Illustrated with recordings made by William W.H. Gunn, of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Presenter:
James Fisher
Panellist:
K. Williamson
Panellist:
I.J. Ferguson-Lees
Panellist:
I.C.T. Nisbet
Panellist:
F. King
Recordings made by:
William W.H. Gunn.
Production:
Jeffery Boswall

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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