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Grey Plover
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey Plover.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about the British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey Plover. The call of the grey plover across the shimmering mud-flats of an autumn estuary is a haunting sound. They feed out on open mudflats using the "run, stop, peck" method....a quick run towards any worms or shellfish which they spot with those big eyes, stop, then a slight lean forward to pick it up.
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Mon 9 Jan 2023
05:58
大象传媒 Radio 4
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
Image courtesy of RSPB (rsbp-images.com)
Broadcasts
- Fri 11 Oct 2013 05:58大象传媒 Radio 4
- Fri 29 May 2015 05:58大象传媒 Radio 4
- Mon 19 Sep 2016 05:58大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 25 Sep 2016 08:58大象传媒 Radio 4
- Tue 28 Sep 2021 05:58大象传媒 Radio 4
- Mon 9 Jan 2023 05:58大象传媒 Radio 4
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