Whitwell Bird Ringers
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Whitwell Bird Ringers

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202623 min

Brett Westwood goes to meet ornithologist Jack Baddams and his fellow bird ringers in his home village Whitwell in Derbyshire, to find out how the practice of ringing has been passed down the generations there, and learns about the impact it has on nature conservation more widely. Most people know Jack as the young ornithologist who reports for BBC Springwatch. He’s also a bird ringer, licenced by the British Trust for Ornithology to catch and ring wild birds so we can learn more about their lives. His passion for birds started young, and as a teenager Ja...

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So has a Robin just flown into the net and Eleanor's removing very, very carefully all the strands of the net from the Robin's legs.

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Do you get many robins when you're mist netting? Oh yes, they're very common, one of the most common birds that we catch. Early risers,

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