Woodcock
Kate Humble presents the woodcock.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Kate Humble presents the woodcock. Woodcocks are waders, thickset, long-billed, and superbly camouflaged. On the woodland floor, where they hide by day, their rust, fawn and black plumage conceals them among the dead leaves of winter. Often the first sign that they're about is a blur of russet and a whirr of wings as a woodcock rises from almost under your feet and twists away between the tree-trunks.
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Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
Broadcasts
- Tue 1 Apr 2014 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Tue 23 Jun 2015 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Thu 2 Jun 2016 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Fri 1 Feb 2019 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sun 8 Mar 2020 08:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Fri 29 Jan 2021 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Thu 10 Mar 2022 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Fri 27 Oct 2023 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
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