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Dermot O'Leary on Swifts and Swallows Nov 16, 2017

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Presenter Dermot O'Leary relishes the effortless soaring of swifts and remembers the joy of the independence of his first car and the feeling of taking country roads home to visit his family and seeing swallows bobbing along in front of him on the lanes.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Phill Luckhurst.

Dermot O'Leary on the Greater Black-backed Gull Nov 15, 2017

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Presenter Dermot O'Leary hails the greater black-backed gull as an 'Alsatian of the skies' as he marvels at their hardy survival skills and effortless aerodynamics.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Simon Richardson.

Dermot O'Leary on the Coal Tit Nov 14, 2017

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Since his early teens, presenter Dermot O'Leary has into birdlife and from his kitchen in Central London he loves gazing into the garden and watching the effort small birds like the coal tit put in as they troop back and forth from the bird feeders.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Tom McKibbin.

Dermot O'Leary on the Sea Eagle Nov 13, 2017

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Presenter Dermot O'Leary goes in search of sea eagles in the Highlands. He's enlisted wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan to help him track them down but with the light fading their chances of seeing them are not looking good.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photo: Ian Ireland.

Gary Moore on the Skylark Nov 10, 2017

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Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore hears a skylark at the site of the Battle of the Somme and imagines soldiers over a century ago finding comfort in that familiar British sound.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: _pauls.

Gary Moore on the Stone Curlew Nov 09, 2017

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Braving dark countryside, sound recordist Gary Moore goes in search of the rarely-heard sound of the stone curlew and finds himself laying in wet grass swaying his mic in the air.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Andy Harris.

Gary Moore on the Woodlark Nov 08, 2017

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When wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore put on his headphones to capture the sound of a woodlark his recording revealed some unusual behaviour that was snapped up by the Springwatch TV team.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Ian Redman.

Gary Moore on the Manx Shearwater Nov 07, 2017

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Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore tells how he became a launching pad for migrating Manx Shearwater when he took a trip to the island of Skomer off the coast of Wales.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Lakes4Life.

Gary Moore on the Golden Pheasant Nov 06, 2017

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Gary Moore describes the elation of tracking down the notoriously elusive golden pheasant and finding it basking in sunshine as it poses for a mate.

Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Martin Clay.

Paul Evans on the Carrion Crow Nov 06, 2017

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On the eve of Halloween, the silence of a graveyard is broken by the raucous calls of an inky black Crow "Throwing her voice as if coughing up a bone" as writer Paul Evans encounters a crow in a cemetery.

Producer: Sarah Blunt Photograph: Derek Wood.

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