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Michael Palin on the Stone Curlew

Sir Michael Palin finds the stone curlew a bizarre but most fascinating bird.

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The stone curlew is a bird that was familiar to Gilbert White around Selbourne . Oddly it is not a curlew, but a member of the thick-knees family. Unlike other waders it prefers dry and sandy habitats to breed in, and being a mostly nocturnal bird it has oversized eyes giving it the old country name of 'goggle eyed plover' For Sir Michael Palin the stone curlew is a most fascinating bird, if a little bizarre on first encounter..

Producer : Andrew Dawes for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio in Bristol
Studio Engineer : Suzy Robins

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Sun 18 Aug 2024 08:58
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