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 : Macaws

Tweet Take 5 : Macaws

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

An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring three macaw species.

An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring three macaw species with Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin.

In this final episode in the series, a group of birds which are loud, colourful and in one case endangered take flight over the South American tree-tops. For this extended version of Tweet of the Day Sir David Attenborough presents the hyacinth macaw and, the now thought extinct in the wild but planned to be reintroduced in 2021, Spix's macaw while Sir Michael Palin reveals the story behind the well named scarlet macaw.

Producer : Andrew Dawes for BBC Audio in Bristol

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