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One swallow doesn't make a summer but it comes close: Brett Westwood explores a much loved and inspirational bird who's own definition of happiness is a field of cow dung.

One swallow doesn't make a summer but it comes close: Brett Westwood explores a much loved and inspirational bird whose own definition of happiness is a field of cow dung. Mark Cocker is in one such field in Derbyshire; Anders Pape Moller catches breeding swallows in a cow byre in Jutland; Angela Turner tells stories of how we've adored and exploited swallows, Anthony Roberts and Ellie Ness lead a swallow ringing on the Isle of Wight and we hear from Katrina Ibaken as she watches swallows in the Nigerian village of Ibaken. Producer: Tom Bonnett

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