Bobolink
Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Bobolink.
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Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Bobolink. You might never have heard of a Bobolink – but these birds do occur very rarely in the UK although their true home is in the grasslands of Canada and the northern states of the USA. They look like large finches but belong to the family of New World blackbirds. Because the breeding males have black and white plumage they are sometimes called 'skunk blackbirds'.
The sound archive recording of the bobolink featured in this programme was sourced from The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)
Macaulay Library
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- Wed 30 Oct 2013 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 27 Aug 2015 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Mon 28 Sep 2020 05:58Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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