Tweet of the Day

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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.

Tweet of the Day: Tweet Take 5 : Egrets

Tweet Take 5 : Egrets

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Tweet Take 5 : Egrets

An extended version of Tweet of the Day on three recently arrived egret species.

An extended version of Tweet of the Day on the colonisation of Britain by three egret species, with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Sir David Attenborough and Chris Watson.

Seemingly all too often we hear of bird species declining in Britain. However three members of the heron family have expanded their range in recent decades and are now known to breed here.  As we will hear in this extended version of Tweet of the day on the little egret with Miranda Krestovnikoff, the great white egret with Sir David Attenborough and the cattle egret with wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson.

Producer : Andrew Dawes for BBC Audio in Bristol

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