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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: Chris Packham's Tweet of the Day Springwatch

10/06/2018

Chris Packham's Tweet of the Day Springwatch

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Chris Packham, host of BBC Springwatch, selects favourite episodes from Tweet of the Day.

It is Springwatch week, and host Chris Packham selects his favourite episodes from Tweet of the Day, species that should be calling or singing while Springwatch is on air.

It is the final week of the BBC's wildlife series Springwatch; what better time then than for it's host Chris Packham, a long time presenter and supporter of Tweet of the Day, to select five of his personal favourites from the Radio 4 series. Birds which should be calling or singing while Springwatch is on air. In this episode Chris recalls the delight on seeing a sparrowhawk in the garden before introducing the five species he has chosen from his own time presenting on the series, which you can hear Monday to Friday at 05.58 this week.

You can hear more from Chris in the Tweet of the Week omnibus podcast, which can be found on the Radio 4 website, or can be found on the BBC iplayer Radio App by searching search for Tweet of the Week.

Producer Andrew Dawes.

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