Arctic Warbler
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler.
An episode of the Tweet of the Day podcast, hosted by BBC Radio 4, titled "Arctic Warbler" was published on October 10, 2014 and runs 1 minutes.
October 10, 2014 ·1m · Tweet of the Day
Summary
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world. Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler. These classic olive-grey warblers, slightly smaller than the European robin, with a pale eye-stripe, winter in south-east Asia, but each spring fly to northern forests to breed. This can be as far as Finland, up to 13,000 kilometres away as well as Arctic and sub-Arctic Russia, Japan and even Alaska. They do this to feed on the bountiful supply of insects which proliferate during the 24-hour daylight of an Arctic summer. A few make it to Britain, the Northern Isles, but whether they finally return to Asia is not known.
Episode Description
Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world. Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler. These classic olive-grey warblers, slightly smaller than the European robin, with a pale eye-stripe, winter in south-east Asia, but each spring fly to northern forests to breed. This can be as far as Finland, up to 13,000 kilometres away as well as Arctic and sub-Arctic Russia, Japan and even Alaska. They do this to feed on the bountiful supply of insects which proliferate during the 24-hour daylight of an Arctic summer. A few make it to Britain, the Northern Isles, but whether they finally return to Asia is not known.