Archive of: Bird Song
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15 June 2020
Nightingale - Bird Song
The glorious Nightingale has a reputation for song like no other. There are probably very few species with a more prodigious claim to world’s greatest songster
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05 June 2020
Goldfinch - Bird Song
The magnificent Goldfinch is a delicate, richly-coloured bird and one of our most enchanting garden inhabitants
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25 May 2020
Greenfinch - Bird Song
The Greenfinch is an exceedingly attractive and familiar bird species, but sadly it’s in serious decline
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14 May 2020
Song Thrush - Bird Song
The Song Thrush is the most familiar member of its family to have ‘Thrush’ in the name. They’re one of just a few birds comprehensively defined by their song
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07 May 2020
Blackcap - Bird Song
The Blackcap is a distinctive member of the ‘Old World’ warblers and is regarded as one of the finest songsters within its extended family
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30 April 2020
Deciphering the dawn chorus
Wildlife expert Nick Acheson introduces some of our feathered superstars to listen out for this spring.
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29 April 2020
Dunnock - Bird Song
The Dunnock is an overwhelmingly inconspicuous bird that in fact very much belies its meek and modest nature
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22 April 2020
Blackbird - Bird Song
The Blackbird is perhaps more familiar to us than any other bird, surely the species we associate most closely with our gardens
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16 April 2020
Wren - Bird Song
The Wren is a tiny little bird, but it packs a voice with huge punch
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07 April 2020
Robin - Bird Song
We may love the Robin, but there’s something about them that belies their general demeanour - they’re viciously territorial.
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31 March 2020
Chaffinch - Bird Song
The Chaffinch, our most familiar British Finch. Perhaps surprisingly it’s the UK’s third commonest breeding bird after Wren and Robin