Goldcrest
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Goldcrest.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about the British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
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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Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Broadcasts
- Fri 18 Oct 2013 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Fri 19 Jun 2015 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Fri 11 Nov 2016 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Mon 14 Feb 2022 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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