A guide to mountain and moorland birds

• Main Authors: Westwood, B, Watson, C, Moss, S
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BBC Radio 4 2013
• Subjects: GV Recreation Leisure; Q Science (General); QH301 Biology; QK Botany; QL Zoology; Snow Bunting; Snow Chicken
• Online Access: http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/6744/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01px5y3

Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss in rather wild and windy weather on the rolling hills of the Long Mynd in Shropshire and with the help of recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, they offer a practical and entertaining guide to the birds which you're most likely to see and hear on Britain's high mountain tops; birds like Dotterel (which by an amazing bit of luck Brett and Stephen see on the Long Mynd as it stops off on migration), the colour changing Ptarmigan (known colloquially in America as the Snow Chicken because of its white colouring in winter) and a songbird, the Snow Bunting. This is a series of five programmes to help you identify many of the birds seen and heard in Upland Britain; on heather moors, upland grasslands, cliffs and crags, bogs and mires and the high mountain tops. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them from their calls and songs