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Shriek of the Week: Sedge Warbler

If there was a prize for angriest sounding bird, sedge warblers would be in with a shout. And that shout would be quite irritable.

A summer visitor to wetlands and soggy spots up and down the UK, sedge warblers deliver a frenetic jumble of...

8 days ago
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Wood Warbler

A forest dweller, dwindling in numbers in Britain, the ‘spinning coin’ song of the wood warbler can still be heard in western woodlands from late April until June.

The phrase can be heard as something between the 8-bit explosion of the cor...

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Shriek of the Week: Lesser Whitethroat

I challenge you to find a poem, song or one-act play about the lesser whitethroat.

Amid all the excitement over the first swallow, the first cuckoo and the first nightingale, the lesser whitethroat’s song slips into our field edges from mi...

20 days ago
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Shriek of the Week: Meadow Pipit

The meadow pipit is one of the ultimate LBJs (‘little brown jobs’) of the bird world, but their voice plays a big part in the soundscapes of open country all over Britain.

Meadow pipits spend much of their lives quietly poking about in lon...

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