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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: Mark Cocker on the Ring Ouzel

Mark Cocker on the Ring Ouzel

BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Mark Cocker on the Ring Ouzel

Listening to the ring ouzel's call takes Mark Cocker back to his childhood.

Conversational voices of those inspired by birds. Mark Cocker remembers a childhood encounter with a ring ouzel, a bird with a blackbird-like call that winters in Morocco.

Sitting close to the very spot where writer and ornithologist Mark Cocker first saw a ring ouzel as a schoolboy, he recalls the sense of ecstasy hearing and seeing a ring ouzel among the high moorlands landscape of Derbyshire. 

Producer Tim Dee
Photograph: Peter Lewis.

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