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 courtship dances in the natural world. The kingfisher's electric blue flash. The pied wagtail pumping its tail on the towpath ahead of you. And the cormorant — prehistoric, indifferent, magnificent — drying its wings on a post above the water. You don't need a nature reserve. You just need a canal. New reel out now! 🎙️#BIRDZ #CanalBirds #WatersideBirds #Moorhen #Coot #GreatCrestedGrebe #Kingfisher #PiedWagtail #Cormorant #BritishBirds #UKWildlife #BirdwatchingUK #BritishWildlife #RiverWildlife #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #FreshwaterWildlife #CanalWildlife #BritishNature

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 from two countries, protected by a handful of dedicated people for over a century, and brought back from the edge in one of the most extraordinary conservation recoveries ever recorded. Shakespeare wrote about them in Tudor London. Now they're back. The Red Kite - episode out now! 🎙️

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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 nobody thought possible 30 years ago.#BIRDZ #RedKite #BritishBirds #UKWildlife #BirdwatchingUK #BritishWildlife #BirdsOfPrey #Raptors #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #UKNature #NatureLovers #BirdConservation #BritishNature #RaptorsOfInstagram #ConservationSuccess #nature #WildlifePhotography #BirdOfTheCentury #UKRaptors #birds

Every oak tree you've ever walked under may owe its existence to a single bird. The Jay doesn't just cache acorns — it remembers where it buried thousands of them, uses landmarks to find them again months later, and when it forgets, it plants a forest. This is the bird that built Britain's woodlands. And it's doing it right now.#birdwatching #birdlovers #birds #britishbirds #ukwildlife #BIRDZ #naturepodcast #birdpodcast #ornithology #jay #jaybird #corvids #corvidae #oakwoodland #britishwildlife #wildlifeuk #forestbirds #uknature #birdnerds #gardenbirds #autumnwildlife #woodlandbirds #birdinguk #naturelover #wildlifephotography

This is the bird that built Britain's woodlands. And it's doing it right now. Full episode on  ⁨@wrenbirdz⁩ 

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Ditch the Feeder is the episode of @BIRDZ where we find out how to keep feeding the birds now that the RSPB has recommended taking feeders down between May and October. We look at the best plants to grow — sunflowers, teasels, ivy, milk thistle and wild thistles — what soil conditions they need, how to water them, and some reallysimple home hacks to get your garden right. And the good news? If you’re listening in late May, you’re still in the planting window for almost all of them. Crack on. 🌱

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If you manage to get out and about her are five birds to look out for. 🌾 The buzzard soaring on thermal currents overhead. The skylark climbing vertically into the sky, singing all the way up. The swallow threading between hedgerows on its way back from Africa. The kestrel hanging motionless in the wind, watching the grass below with eyes that can see ultraviolet light. And the yellowhammer — that flash of burning yellow on a summer hedgerow, singing its heart out on a wire. These are the birds of the British countryside. And the countryside is changing around them. 🎙️

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The fastest reliably recorded stoop of a peregrine falcon was 389 kilometres per hour. It steers like a guided missile, hits like a punch at full speed, and was nearly wiped out by a single pesticide within living memory. It recovered. It moved into our cities. And right now, one is probably perched on a building somewhere near you.

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The fastest reliably recorded stoop of a peregrine falcon was 389 kilometres per hour. It steers like a guided missile, hits like a punch at full speed, and was nearly wiped out by a single pesticide within living memory. It recovered. It moved into our cities. And right now, one is probably perched on a building somewhere near you.#birdwatching #birdlovers #birds #britishbirds #ukwildlife #BIRDZ #naturepodcast #birdpodcast #ornithology #peregrine #peregrinefalcon #falcon #raptors #birdsofprey #ukraptors #wildlifeuk #uknature #birdnerds #conservationbirds #urbanwildlife #citybirds #britishwildlife #naturelover #rarebirds

Five birds. One riverbank. All of them extraordinary. 🌊 The kingfisher, the heron, the sand martin, the little egret — and the mallard, with the most irresistible ducklings in Britain. The waterside is one of the richest wildlife habitats we have, and most of us walk past it every day without really seeing it. 🎙️

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