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Goldcrest

Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Goldcrest.

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Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Goldcrest. Goldcrests are, by a whisker, our smallest bird - roughly nine centimetres long and the weight of a ten pence coin. They migrate in October and November from Continental Europe and some people used to believe that because they arrived around the same time as wintering woodcock they'd travelled on the waders' backs and the tiny goldcrest became known as the 'woodcock pilot'.

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Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:58

Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)

Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com)

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  • Fri 18 Oct 2013 05:58
  • Fri 19 Jun 2015 05:58
  • Fri 11 Nov 2016 05:58
  • Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:58

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