It passed a test only humans and great apes had passed before - The Magpie
The Magpie is an episode of @BIRDZNERDZ where we get to meet one of Britain's most misunderstood birds — a corvid so cognitively sophisticated that it passed a test previously failed by every non-huma...
4 Kesä 13min
One For Wonder.Truth About the Magpie #birds #wildlife #nature #magpies #britishbirds #naturelovers
The Magpie is a quickfire look at the bird on your fence post — why it's one of the most intelligent animals in Europe, why almost everything you've been told about it is wrong, and why it's almost ce...
4 Kesä 36s
The Bird that conquered the Car Parks - The Wagtail
The Wagtail is an episode of BIRDZ where we get to meet three birds that couldn't be more different — one that's conquered every car park and rooftop in Britain, one that needs clean fast-flowing rive...
31 Touko 16min
The most confident bird in Britain. And you've been ignoring it
Britain's most confident urban bird, roosting in its thousands above the high street on winter nights, and wagging that tail at anything that dares to watch.#BIRDZBERDZ #PiedWagtail #Wagtail #BritishB...
31 Touko 1min
The Birds outside your window right now @birdz
Nine birds. One garden. All of them extraordinary. 🌿 The sparrowhawk threading through your garden at full speed. The blackcap singing like it's auditioning for the nightingale. The starling performi...
29 Touko 5min
Hidden Wildlife that's closer than you think.
Six birds. One canal. All of them extraordinary. 🌊 The moorhen with its snowshoe feet. The coot that can identify its own chicks. The great crested grebe performing one of the most spectacular courts...
28 Touko 4min
One breeding female left. In the whole of England- The Red Kite.
In 1989, there was one successfully breeding female red kite left in the whole of England and Scotland. One. 🦅 Today the UK holds 17% of the entire world population. The red kite was exterminated fro...
28 Touko 16min
The Bird That Came Back From the Dead.
The Red Kite is an episode of BIRDZ where we get to meet the bird that once cleaned the streets of Shakespeare's London, was hunted to near extinction, and is now soaring above the M40 in numbers that...
28 Touko 45s
