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Intimate encounters and extraordinary observations of wild nature in Britain and beyond.

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Living World: My Living World: Stone Curlew

Stone Curlew

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Hannah Stitfall and Dom Davies discuss stone curlews from the Living World archive

Naturalists Hannah Stitfall and Dom Davies discuss another pick from the Living World archive: Stone Curlews. These are birds of the night with huge yellow eyes and haunting calls.

Wildlife film maker Hannah Stitfall is joined by Dom Davies, a wildlife film researcher  to discuss another pick from the Living World archive. Today their subject is  Stone Curlews and  a programme in which the presenter Joanna Pinnock travels to Wiltshire in search of these crepuscular waders whose haunting calls can be heard after dusk. She is joined by Nick Adams of the RSPB who has been working with local farmers on a conservation project to improve the habitat for these birds and restore the population which became seriously depleted in the mid-1980s. For Hannah and Dom the programme offers a rare encounter with a bird that few of us will have seen or heard.  Producer Sarah Blunt

Living World: My Living World

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Hannah Stitfall and guest discuss a selection from the Living World archive.

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