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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 : Manx Shearwater

Tweet Take 5 : Manx Shearwater

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

Extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the long range migrant, the Manx shearwater

Extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the long range migrant, the Manx shearwater with Brian Briggs, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Gary Moore.

Sometimes known as the devil bird or the Manxies, the Manx shearwarter is a remarkable bird.  A real oceanic flyer, they only  come into land under the cover of darkness. Their eerie otherworldly calls emanate from deep burrows on remote islands on the west and north of Britain where they come to breed. These remarkable long range migrants overwinter off the coasts of South America, with one bird over its lifetime having been recorded flying the same distance to the moon and back more than ten times. As we'll hear in this extended version of Tweet of the Day with musician and conservationist Brian Briggs, presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff and sound recordist Gary Moore.

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