A guide to coastal birds

Westwood, B, Watson, C and Moss, S (2010) A guide to coastal birds.

Item Type: Audio
Creators: Westwood, B, Watson, C and Moss, S
Corporate Creators: BBC
Abstract: Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss on the Devonshire coast. With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they offer a practical and entertaining guide to birds that you're most likely to see and hear on Britain's off-shore islands; birds like Common Eider Duck, Puffin, Manx Shearwater and Arctic Tern. These programmes to help identify many of the birds found around our British coastline in places like sandy beaches, rocky shores, estuaries, sea cliffs and off-shore islands. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them from their calls and songs
Official URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t86v0
Date: September 2010
Note:

There were 5 episodes which aired on BBC Radio 4 from 8 August - 5 September 2010. The titles of these episodes were:
Episode 1: Estuaries
Episode 2: Sandy Shores
Episode 3: Rocky Shores
Episode 4: Sea Cliffs
Episode 5: Offshore Islands

The sound recordings of the radio programme were also published as a CD under the title 'A guide to British coastal birds: and their sounds' (AudioGo, 2011), and as part of the boxset 'A guide to British birds: their songs, calls and sounds' (BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2012)

Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Q Science > QL Zoology
Divisions: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
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