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THE LIVING WORLD
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The Living World is a gentle weekend natural history programme, presented by Lionel Kelleway, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate encounters with British wildlife.
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LISTEN AGAIN Ìý25min |
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"The Living World is the next best thing to being there. Our contributors are skilled naturalists who are able to reveal those fascinating facts about animals and plants that you don't always find in books. It's like having a personal guided tour of the countryside, without needing to leave the house."
Lionel Kelleway
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A chiffchaff. © Dawn Balmer.
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Living World - Wintering Warblers
Lionel travels to south Cornwall on the trail of wintering warblers. Recent surveys have shown that large numbers of warblers - which are small usually migrant birds - are opting to spend the winter in Britain in preference to moving further south to West Africa or the Mediterranean.
Some species of warbler like the chiffchaff are mainly insectivorous but others like the blackcap can also feed on seeds and berries as well so will visit garden birdtables. When it does get colder here, chiffchaff flocks will make use of the small flies available over the sewage pans of water treatment works as a readily available source of winter food. These midges emerge from the cinder beds of the pans as their larvae play a part in the decomposition of the sewage.
Typically on the day the programme was recorded temperatures were unseasonally warm so very few chiffchaffs were seen as the flocks were still outside in the countryside enjoying a surfeit of winter food.
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