After 600 years The Stork Is Back. And It Has Plans #stork #storks #birds #birdznerdz #wildlife
It stood on a Sussex meadow last spring. White as a cloud, with jet-black wingtips and legs the colour of red brick. A metre tall. Looking, honestly, like it owned the place. 🐦 The White Stork. Back ...
25 Jun 15min
The bird that founded the RSPB, Goldfinch. #birds #wildlife #britishbirds #goldfinch #ukwildlife
In 1860, the town of Worthing trapped and sold 132,000 goldfinches in a single year. 🐦 A bird that weighs less than 20 grams — nearly wiped out because people couldn't resist that scarlet face and go...
21 Jun 37s
Your Garden Is Alive With Voices 🐦
Seven birds. Seven voices. All of them singing in your garden right now. 🐦 The song thrush repeating its phrases like a bird that knows exactly what it wants to say. The starling borrowing sounds it ...
19 Jun 2min
The Most Recognisable Bird Sounds in Britain — Can You Name Them?
Close your eyes. Can you hear it?That sound drifting through your window — the one you've heard your whole life without ever knowing its name — has a story behind it.In this episode of BIRDZNERDZ, we ...
18 Jun 10min
Goldfinch,Its beauty nearly caused its extinction.
In 1860, in the town of Worthing alone, 132,000 goldfinches were captured and sold as cage birds in a single year.That is not a typo. One town. One year. 132,000 birds.The goldfinch was once the most ...
16 Jun 13min
The Chip thief who inspired a Noble prize- Gulls
It stole your chips. It makes noise beside the bins. It has moved onto your roof and disturbed the entire street.But the gull — please don't call it a seagull, that word lumps fifty distinct species i...
16 Jun 18min
Robin - The Thug life of Britain's favourite bird.
It appears on every Christmas card. It follows you around the garden. It has big dark eyes and a gentle red breast and looks like an old friend.But the real robin is nothing like that card suggests.Th...
16 Jun 22min
The Puffin on the postcard is lovely. The reality is extraordinary 🌊"
Everyone loves the puffin. But almost nobody knows the real one. 🌊 The beak that glows under UV light. The chick that leaves its burrow alone at night and finds the ocean by starlight. The bird that ...
14 Jun 1min
