Great programme on world Service started last Wednesday and for the next 4 weeks at 9am called 'It's a Bird's world' presented by Mya Rose-Craig and having a different environmental theme each week.

On BBC sounds. Very interesting science.

Finally got around to watching this year's Springwatch on catch up. There is an item regarding Black - headed Gulls about 20 minutes into the first episode. BBC dipped on a pair of Adult Mediterranean Gull @ 23:44. minutes. 

Some nice footage of a Regent Honeycreeper on BBC Breakfast. Unfortunately, featured because there are now so few (c300) that they very rarely hear each other call and are starting to imitate other species. Birds in captivity (hopefully a breeding programme) are being played their calls to refresh their memory. Footage at start of programme at 6:13 on Iplayer.

Not on the radio exactly, but hopefully considered to be appropriate to this thread.

Today (Tuesday 21st April) at 7PM
[Quote]Alan Davies is with Ruth Miller.
We are all set for our live question and answer session on Glaslyn Osprey Group Facebook page tomorrow 7pm on Tuesday 21 April. We are looking for questions from you the lovely folks of Facebook. You can join us on the night which would be brilliant or ask a question here in the comment section and we can answer it on air. No holds barred just fire away with those questions you have always wanted to ask! Any bird/birding related topics but we are happy to have a go at anything you throw at us!!

https://www.facebook.com/BywydGwylltGlaslynWildlife - Its a private group, so you will have to join the Facebook Group first

also, my friend David Lindo (The Urban Birder) is doing some webinars over Zoom with various interesting personalities from the Birding and Wildlife world, while he is holed up in Extremadura. Already he has spoken with Iolo Williams (Friday) and Dawn Balmer of the BTO yesterday. More are lined up as follows:

Tuesday 21st April: Darren Woodhead (Wildlife Artist)
Wed 22nd April: Chris Watson (David Attenborough's soundman)
Thurs 23rd April:Kenn Kaufman (american Birder)
Fri 24th April: Jason Ward (American Birder)
https://theurbanbirderworld.com/live-webinars/

more are planned for the following weeks.

-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:35:49 AM

-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:36:10 AM

-- Edited by Charles Farrell on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:40:42 AM

The new dab station SCALA RADIO is asking the question, this morning:

how high do Larks ascend?

aka "The Lark  Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams

The answer given by a listener for Skylark was 1000 feet.

This lines up with a Wildlife Trust article I have found that gives 

300metres.

Im quite surprise.

-- Edited by Keith Mills on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 04:29:44 PM

The piece on using NASA tech to count Northern Royal Albatrosses mentioned by Rob was on BBC Breakfast and 6 p.m. news as well, so will be available on Iplayer for 24 hrs. Worryingly actual numbers are lower than estimated. At least it gives the conservationists a more accurate picture of the problem

Life on the East Asian Flyway;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wpkd8

4 x 1/2hr programmes;

"One of the great wonders of the natural world is in deep trouble.

Millions of shorebirds fly from Australia and Southeast Asia to the Arctic every year. They follow the planets most gruelling migratory route the East Asian Australasian Flyway.

Join Ann Jones as she watches wading birds such as curlews, godwits and sandpipers prepare for their epic journey. They fatten up on clams to the point of obesity, to fuel the flight. They grow bigger hearts and flight muscles. Just before departure, they shrink their digestive organs to become the most efficient flying machines for their first 7 day non-stop flight.

The birds lives are full of danger and the most serious threats are man-made. The flyway is in peril with many species plummeting towards extinction. As youll hear, its enough to make a grown man cry."

Spoonievision's about to start on the WWT's site:

http://www.wwt.org.uk/support/our-appeals/spoon-billed-sandpiper/

Behind the scenes looks at their attempts to save the spoon-billed sandpiper.

Dawn chorus. Still available on iPlayer. To quote the blurb"Uninterrupted and unspoiled by voiceover or music, the birdsong of sunrise in all its glory. Three different habitats, Britain's woodland, heathland and parkland, burst into song"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05ttkx2/dawn-chorus-the-sounds-of-spring

Latest birding news from Ambridge:

Robert Snell spotted a couple of Mediterranean Gulls by the treatment plant and has asked Eddie Grundy not
to mention it to Jim, Robert's birding rival. Eddie, of course, couldn't give a monkey's; the only birds he has
any interest in are the turkeys he rears to sell at Christmas.

There's no shame in being an Archers listener Jamie, and therapy is available these days.
Anyway, Sabrina aught to be grateful to have such a good garden tick as Grey Wagtail.

Two characters on the Archers discussing the unreliability of the wing panel in separating Marsh and Willow Tits. Robert Snell and some other bloke

Just listened to a really good programme on playback that was on BBC Radio 4 this morning at 06.35 called The Living World. This edition was about Nightjars - very well put together, could almost feel the mosquitoes biting

Tuesday

Complete Control
Magnificent 7
Groovy Times

Think I missed Lost in the Supermarket - he was going on about tins of beans and stuff

Lots of superb birds in the BBC mini-series called 'Hebrides'. Watch it on iPlayer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p014g3vx/Hebrides_Islands_on_the_Edge_Episode_1/

Now up to episode 2 with episode 3 on Monday 20th May at 9pm on BBC 1.

The first BBC R4 'Tweet of the Day' programme is now available on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s6y1h/Tweet_of_the_Day_Cuckoo_Male/

It's introduced by David Attenborough and lasts about 2 minutes.

Adrian Dancy wrote:

---

Martyn Jones wrote:

---

Peter Baron, a well-known local Birder, educator and recorder for Elton in Bury, is to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's iPM programme at 5:30pm tomorrow (Saturday 13th April). Peter has an incredible knowledge of birds and he is very entertaining with it, so it should be a good listen. I'll try to download or record the programme and I'll make it available through my websites if I'm successful. It may also be available on iPlayer for a while too.

---

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rrdd8/iPM_13_04_2013/

---

and here: http://birds-ath.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/peters-starring-on-radio.html

Beginning on May 6th, Radio 4 will be starting a new series of ninety second broadcasts featuring new recordings of British birds, every weekday morning at 05:58, running for a year. Each 'episode' will feature a different species.

Martyn Jones wrote:

---

Peter Baron, a well-known local Birder, educator and recorder for Elton in Bury, is to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4's iPM programme at 5:30pm tomorrow (Saturday 13th April). Peter has an incredible knowledge of birds and he is very entertaining with it, so it should be a good listen. I'll try to download or record the programme and I'll make it available through my websites if I'm successful. It may also be available on iPlayer for a while too.

---

Very good it was too!!
I just wish there were still 700 Golden Plover around GM!!

'Saving Species' on Radio 4 today is worth catching on iPlayer for an interesting piece on the slightly depressing, but ongoing search for Slender-Billed Curlew

-- Edited by dave broome on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 10:09:14 PM

Jim talking about the Loch Garten osprey whilst doing some birding in Ambridge a few days ago on the Archers...

Thanks to the Manx Birder for putting me on to a BBC Radio 4 programme " The Alien Birds Have Landed". Just a 15 minute broadcast at 1.45pm each day this week discusses "none" British species. Today was on about Little Owls and Eagle Owls, very interesting, listen on BBC iPlayer.

Worth listening to Open Country on Radio 4 yesterday at 3pm. The 'Urban Birder' David Lindow and others put the case for wildlife watching in cities. Interesting listen.

Part 3 Europe


Some top filming again this time showing cranes, white stork, barnacle geese, brent geese, swallows and others, superb behaviour showing arctic tern, skuas and geese coming together trying to ward of a bear, slow motion captures of swallows and sand martings catching mayflys, feathers, gannets diving, ospreys fishing, peregrine chasing starlings, a great series,