Cirl Bunting
Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting.
Cirl buntings are related to yellowhammers and look rather like them, but the male cirl bunting has a black throat and a greenish chest-band.
Their rattling song may evoke memories of warm dry hillsides in France or Italy. Cirl buntings are Mediterranean birds more at home in olive groves than chilly English hedgerows. Here at the north-western edge of their range, most of our cirl buntings live near the coast in south Devon where they breed in hedgerows on farmland .
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Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus)
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- Wed 17 Jul 2013 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Wed 30 Jul 2014 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 3 Aug 2014 08:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Mon 15 Aug 2016 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Fri 15 Nov 2019 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Fri 17 Sep 2021 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Thu 13 Apr 2023 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Tue 19 Sep 2023 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
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