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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: Parrot Crossbill

Parrot Crossbill

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Parrot Crossbill

John Aitchison presents the parrot crossbill.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

John Aitchison tells the story of the parrot crossbill.  The Parrot Crossbill lives only in a few native pinewoods in Scotland.  When they're at the top of pine trees a view of the Parrot Crossbill is tricky, so crossbill experts use the birds' calls to tell them apart from Common and Scottish Crossbills.   Parrot crossbills have a deeper call than the others.

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