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Tweet of the Day
- A Year of British Birds
- Narrated by: Bill Oddie, Brett Westwood, Chris Packham, David Attenborough, John Aitchison, Kate Humble, Liz Bonnin, Martin Hughes-Games
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Radio/TV Programme
- Categories: History, Europe
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The complete first series of Tweet of the Day, with introductions by Sir David Attenborough, Chris Packham, Kate Humble and many others.
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This collection contains every edition from the first series, British Birds. The songs of over 160 birds can be heard over the course of a year, from the cuckoo's call in spring to the summer seaside sound of the herring gull, the autumn song of the robin and the song thrush's voice of hope in the depths of winter.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-09-19
No track listing.
No track listing which renders the book unusable as a learning resource and you soon become tired of listening to the tweets in a linear manner. Please update.
6 people found this helpful
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- Rose
- 26-03-19
better than twitter any time
There’s an interesting exercise you can do with this programme, one can’t really call it a book after all, and that is to see how many birds you can name just by hearing the tweet before the name of the bird is annnounced. I think my favourites were the divers and warblers though there are some very complicated birdsongs in this collection. it’s just a nice relaxing book to listen to and there’s not much more to say about it. I liked it.
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- A. Harris
- 21-05-21
Hundreds of birds. No index!!!!
So if you hear a bird and want to use this to recognise its song, you can't. Stupid or what!
2 people found this helpful
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- Lynn
- 28-12-20
Brilliant!
Such a fascinating insight to birds and beautifully interspersed with their songs and calls. Passionately narrated by a selection of people who clearly love, appreciate and understand their subject matter. So glad I discovered this - it's a real tweet! 😄
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- Bunnyhunt
- 04-11-19
loved every note, human and avian
Bird song is my favourite sound in the universe. Also loved hearing all those familiar human voices that have accompanied my journey through a lifetime's love of the natural world. Lots of fascinating facts too. This is one I shall revisit regularly.
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- PH
- 17-08-19
For the love of birds
If you are interested in birds, this is an easy quick or lengthy relaxing listen. Enjoyable and informative.
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- Richard lloyd
- 18-01-20
Tweet of the Day
Loved these at the time and excellent to be able to hear them all again. Thank you.
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- Anglais
- 05-05-22
Excellent
Best audiobook to date. So much content and amazingly well narrated by every person in it
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- Chris Bish
- 20-06-20
Sample is MISLEADING!
The narrative is only by one person and each bird description is 90 seconds whereas on the sample, you hear the voices of famous people and the descriptions are longer e.g. David Attenborough talking about the nightingale. Even worse is the grouping of all the birds on the tape, not by the seasons but by the whole year. This makes it impossible to find any bird at least on my iPod that you might want to listen to again.
Good material but too brief and not searchable. The sample was totally deceptive. If I had known the real presentation of the work, I would not have bought it. I am VERY disappointed by a seeming bait and switch.