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Tweet Take 5 : Shag and Cormorant

An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the shag and its relative the cormorant with Sir David Attenborough, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Helen Moncrieff.

In Britain we have two distinctive large black waterbirds. One, the shag, named after it's shaggy crest, is a marine seabird. The other the cormorant, is increasingly a bird of inland waterways and wetlands, as we'll hear in this extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the shag and its relative the cormorant with Sir David Attenborough, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Helen Moncrieff of the RSPB.

Producer : Andrew Dawes for 麻豆社 Audio in Bristol

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Sun 4 Jul 2021 10:54
麻豆社 Radio 4 FM

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