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Tweet of the Day

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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Michael Morpurgo on the Greater Flamingo

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/12/01

On a visit to the Camargue National Park in France, author Michael Morpurgo found getting close to beautiful and elegant flamingos, and hearing their call, touched his soul.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Ashutosh Jhureley.

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1:55

Michael Morpurgo on the Dipper

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/30

Author Michael Morpurgo doesn't go out looking for birds, but when out walking along a river he loves to glimpse a dipper and would love to get up closer to them.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Keith Docherty.

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1:52

Michael Morpurgo on the Oystercatcher

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/29

Children's Author and playwright Michael Morpurgo enjoys talking to oystercatchers on his annual visit to the Isles of Scilly.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Chris Kilpatrick.

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1:54

Michael Morpurgo on the Buzzard

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/28

Children's author Michael Morpurgo recounts how his daily walk in the Devon countryside is often enlivened by the call of buzzards overhead for this Tweet of the Day.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Mandy West.

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1:37

Michael Morpurgo on the Magpie

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/27

Children's author and poet Michael Morpurgo discusses the cackling magpie in this Tweet of the Day, a bird that seemingly never dies.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Ken Bentley.

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1:45

Fyfe Dangerfield on the Gannet

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/24

Musician Fyfe Dangerfield describes being enthralled by the rapid, bombing dive of a gannet fishing out at sea and the magic of unexpectedly seeing one up close.Producer: Mark Ward Photograph: Debbie Stevens.

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1:43

Fyfe Dangerfield on the Pigeon

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/23

Musician Fyfe Dangerfield enjoys how his young son's interest in some of our more common birds helps stop him from overlooking everyday avian beauty.Producer: Mark Ward Photograph: Tori Andrews.

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Fyfe Dangerfield on the Black-throated Diver

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/22

The jewel-like patterns of the black-throated diver have musician Fyfe Dangerfield in awe as he heads to Highlands in search of space to write.Producer: Mark Ward Photograph: Paul Jessett.

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1:51

Fyfe Dangerfield on the Bee-Eater

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/21

Musician Fyfe Dangerfield imagines his perfect outfit, a technicolour dreamcoat resplendent in the shimmering hues of the bee-eater.Producer: Mark Ward Photograph: Paul Miguel.

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Fyfe Dangerfield on the Guillemot

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/20

Musician Fyfe Dangerfield tells the story of an inspirational trip to the 'birdland' of the Farne Islands where a seabird inspired the name for the band that made him famous.Producer: Mark Ward Photograph: Simon Stobart.

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1:39

Dermot O'Leary on the Dunnock

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/17

The dunnock is a newly-appreciated bird in the O'Leary household and as Dermot potters around the garden he admires the work ethic and understated beauty of this industrious little brown bird.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Ian Redman.

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1:46

Dermot O'Leary on Swifts and Swallows

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/16

Presenter Dermot O'Leary relishes the effortless soaring of swifts and remembers the joy of the independence of his first car and the feeling of taking country roads home to visit his family and seeing swallows bobbing along in front of him on the lanes.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Phill Luckhurst.

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1:42

Dermot O'Leary on the Greater Black-backed Gull

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/15

Presenter Dermot O'Leary hails the greater black-backed gull as an 'Alsatian of the skies' as he marvels at their hardy survival skills and effortless aerodynamics.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Simon Richardson.

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1:42

Dermot O'Leary on the Coal Tit

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/14

Since his early teens, presenter Dermot O'Leary has into birdlife and from his kitchen in Central London he loves gazing into the garden and watching the effort small birds like the coal tit put in as they troop back and forth from the bird feeders.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Tom McKibbin.

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1:49

Dermot O'Leary on the Sea Eagle

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/13

Presenter Dermot O'Leary goes in search of sea eagles in the Highlands. He's enlisted wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan to help him track them down but with the light fading their chances of seeing them are not looking good.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Ian Ireland.

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1:43

Gary Moore on the Skylark

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/10

Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore hears a skylark at the site of the Battle of the Somme and imagines soldiers over a century ago finding comfort in that familiar British sound.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: _pauls.

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1:41

Gary Moore on the Stone Curlew

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/09

Braving dark countryside, sound recordist Gary Moore goes in search of the rarely-heard sound of the stone curlew and finds himself laying in wet grass swaying his mic in the air.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Andy Harris.

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1:46

Gary Moore on the Woodlark

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/08

When wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore put on his headphones to capture the sound of a woodlark his recording revealed some unusual behaviour that was snapped up by the Springwatch TV team.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Ian Redman.

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1:42

Gary Moore on the Manx Shearwater

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/07

Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore tells how he became a launching pad for migrating Manx Shearwater when he took a trip to the island of Skomer off the coast of Wales.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Lakes4Life.

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1:46

Paul Evans on the Carrion Crow

Tweet of the Day ·

2017/11/06

On the eve of Halloween, the silence of a graveyard is broken by the raucous calls of an inky black Crow "Throwing her voice as if coughing up a bone" as writer Paul Evans encounters a crow in a cemetery.Producer: Sarah Blunt Photograph: Derek Wood.

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