Michael Palin on the Sanderling
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about birds inspired by their calls, songs and behaviour.
As Sir Michael Palin reveals, sanderling鈥檚 are rarely still. Resembling a child鈥檚 clockwork toy, the black legs of a sanderling blur as it scampers back and forth along a sandy beach in winter. It is one of our smallest waders weighing about the same as a tennis ball. Despite their size sanderlings are long distant migrants known to circumnavigate most of the globe. Individual birds have been tracked completing an annual round trip of over 30,000 kilometres.
Producer : Andrew Dawes for 成人快手 Audio in Bristol
Studio Engineer : Ilse Lademann
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- Sun 20 Apr 2025 08:58成人快手 Radio 4
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