Bring Down The Birds
Bring Down The Birds
Bring Down The Birds features a range of music genres, and profiles a Bird of the Week (which sometimes turns out to be anything but a bird because let's face it, the whole world is amazing, not just birds!), and often includes a random 'Birdie Bit' of the week: a small and hopefully interesting chat about birds and their lives... and there's more music...and a 'Waits of the Week' - a Tom Waits tu…Social links:
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Bring Down The Birds Podcast - 2024-11-18
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Bring Down The Birds Podcast - 2024-10-7
Tinamou This week's Bird Of The Week is the Tinamou. This a ground dwelling bird found only in Central and Sth America. Tinamous lay beautifully coloured, glossy eggs (colour varies, depending on the species) and it is the male that incubates the eggs and raises the chicks. Adult Tinamous and thei…
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Bring Down The Birds Podcast - 2024-9-30
Dodo bird This week on Bring Down The Birds, Dr Watson chats about the Dodo: the extinct flightless bird that was found on Mauritius. Sadly, the arrival of European settlers in the late 1500s saw the rapid decline of this unusual species of bird. Today's closest living relative to the Dodo is the …
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Bring Down The Birds Podcast - 2024-9-23
Oxpecker The Bird Of The Week is the Oxpecker! Endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, there are two species of Oxpecker, the Yellow-billed Oxpecker and the Red-billed Oxpecker. These birds live in close association with many species of herbivore in Africa and spend their time picking ectoparasites out of…
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Bring Down The Birds Podcast - 2024-9-16
Gordian Worms Dr Watson has gone off on a tangent and is talking about Gordian Worms tonight. These thread-like worms are found all over the world in still water bodies, often appearing after rain. Their larvae are consumed by host number one (fish, insects etc) and develop into cysts in their bod…
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