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Water Rail
Chris Packham presents the water rail.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Chris Packham presents the water rail. Water rails are very secretive and live in thick vegetation in marshes and fens where the birds breed. The adult birds look rather like small moorhens but with chestnut on top, a blue-grey face and a zebra-stripe patch on their sides. They have long blood-red bills used for probing for insects.
Last on
Sun 29 May 2022
08:58
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Water rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com).
Broadcasts
- Wed 11 Dec 2013 05:58麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
- Wed 29 Jun 2016 05:58麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
- Fri 15 Jun 2018 05:58麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
- Sun 5 Dec 2021 08:58麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
- Sun 29 May 2022 08:58麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
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