Tweet of the Day

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Discover birds through their songs and calls. 265 programmes of 90 seconds, over a year

Discover birds through their songs and calls. Each Tweet of the Day begins with a call or song, followed by a story of fascinating ornithology inspired by the sound.

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Tweet of the Day: Little Ringed Plover

Little Ringed Plover

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Little Ringed Plover

Bill Oddie presents the little ringed plover.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
 
Bill Oddie presents the little ringed plover.  In 1938, there was great excitement at a Hertfordshire reservoir.  On the gravelly shoreline a pair of birds, which had never bred in the UK before, were showing signs of nesting.  They were little ringed plovers, summer visitors to Continental Europe and they'd been attracted to the reservoirs' shingle banks where they laid their clutch of four eggs.   Today there are around a thousand pairs in the UK.

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