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Living World: My Living World: Woodcock

Woodcock

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Hannah Stitfall and Dom Davies review ‘Woodcock’  from the LIVING WORLD archive

In their latest selection from the Living World archive, wildlife enthusiasts Hannah Stitfall and Dom Davies enjoy an encounter with one of our most mysterious birds, the woodcock

Wildlife filmmaker Hannah Stitfall and wildlife film researcher Dom Davies enjoy a close encounter with one of our most mysterious birds, the woodcock, when they review another selection from the LIVING WORLD archive. The woodcock is a wader which spends most of its life in woodland where its wonderful mottled plumage makes it very hard to see, especially as they are nocturnal so most active at night.  The population swells in winter when over a million more migrate here from Scandinavia and Russia in search of earthworms and insects which they probe from the ground with their long bills. Hannah and Dom also discuss another remarkable feature of these birds which is their strange roding flight call. Producer Sarah Blunt.

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