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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: Carry Akroyd and the Snipe

Carry Akroyd and the Snipe

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Although Carry Akroyd grew up in the country, only in adulthood did she hear a snipe.

Although Carry Akroyd grew up in the countryside, as a child she was never shown or taught anything of the natural world around her. So it wasn't until adulthood she heard a snipe.

Although Carry Akroyd, who is is President of the John Clare Society,  grew up in the countryside, as a child she was never shown or taught anything of the natural world around her. 

It was not until adulthood that a revelatory moment occurred.  Walking one day in Wicken Fen, that she heard an unfamiliar noise above her, which she discovered was the drumming flight of an overhead snipe, a bird whose long bill the peasant poet John Clare described as "...of rude unseemly length" .

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