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: Grey Plover

Grey Plover

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Grey Plover

Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey Plover.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about the British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
 
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey Plover. The call of the grey plover across the shimmering mud-flats of an autumn estuary is a haunting sound.  They feed out on open mudflats using the "run, stop, peck" method....a quick run towards any worms or shellfish  which they spot with those big eyes, stop, then a  slight lean forward to pick it up.

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