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BIRDS THAT LISTEN IN THE DARK

on BBC Home Service Basic

by Lord Medway
Following the discovery of bat radar, it is now known that certain groups of birds use echo-location to find their way about in the dark. Lord Medway describes his studies of the Swiftlets of south-east Asia and introduces his own recordings made in their nesting caves in Borneo

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