Birds Britannia
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Birds Britannia is a four-part BBC Four
television series about the bird
s of the United Kingdom
, first shown in 2010. It was produced by Stephen Moss
.
Each of the four, sixty-minute episodes concentrates on one kind of bird: garden birds, waterbirds, seabirds and birds of the countryside.
The series has no presenter, and is narrated by the Scottish actor Bill Paterson, with filmed interviews with a wide range of experts and bird enthusiasts, including David Attenborough
, Mark Cocker
, Jeremy Mynott, Tim Birkhead
, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
, Christopher Frayling
, Kate Humble
, Rob Lambert, Desmond Morris
, David Lindo, Helen Macdonald
, Andrew Motion
, Tony Soper
, and Bill Oddie
.
It has been announced that a book of the same title, by Stephen Moss, will be published by Collins
in April 2011 (ISBN 978-0007413447).
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable....
television series about the bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
s of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, first shown in 2010. It was produced by Stephen Moss
Stephen Moss
Stephen Moss is a British natural historian, birder, author and television producer. He is married, with five children , and lives in Somerset, having moved there from West London....
.
Each of the four, sixty-minute episodes concentrates on one kind of bird: garden birds, waterbirds, seabirds and birds of the countryside.
The series has no presenter, and is narrated by the Scottish actor Bill Paterson, with filmed interviews with a wide range of experts and bird enthusiasts, including David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
, Mark Cocker
Mark Cocker
Mark Cocker is a British author and naturalist. He lives and works deep in the Norfolk countryside with his wife Mary Muir and two daughters in claxton...
, Jeremy Mynott, Tim Birkhead
Tim Birkhead
Tim Robert Birkhead FRS is a British zoologist, and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield. -Life:He earned a BSc from Newcastle University in 1972, and a DPhil from University of Oxford in 1976.-Works:...
, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Jane M. Fearnley-Whittingstall was born in Kensington, London in 1939. She is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She has won two gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show. She has two children: Sophy and Hugh, the celebrity chef, and six grandchildren. From 2005 to...
, Christopher Frayling
Christopher Frayling
Sir Christopher John Frayling is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture.-Biography:Frayling read history at Churchill College, Cambridge and gained a PhD in the study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
, Kate Humble
Kate Humble
Katherine 'Kate' Humble is an English television presenter, mainly for the BBC, specialising in wildlife and science programmes...
, Rob Lambert, Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris
Desmond John Morris, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist, as well as a popular anthropologist. He is also known as a painter, television presenter and popular author.-Life:...
, David Lindo, Helen Macdonald
Helen MacDonald
Helen MacDonald may refer to:* Helen MacDonald , member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2007* Helen MacDonald , Canadian politician, former leader of the New Democrats...
, Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion
Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...
, Tony Soper
Tony Soper
Tony Soper is a naturalist, author and broadcaster from Plymouth in England. Born 10 January 1929, he was educated at Hyde Park Elementary School and at Devonport High School, both in Plymouth...
, and Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie
William "Bill" Edgar Oddie OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who became famous as one of The Goodies....
.
It has been announced that a book of the same title, by Stephen Moss, will be published by Collins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
in April 2011 (ISBN 978-0007413447).
See also
- Birds BritannicaBirds BritannicaBirds Britannica is book by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey, about the birds of the United Kingdom, and a sister volume to Mabey's 1996 Flora Britannica, about British plants...
, a book by Cocker and Richard MabeyRichard MabeyRichard Mabey is a naturalist and author.He has been called by The Times 'Britain's greatest living nature writer'. Among his acclaimed publications are Food for Free, The Unofficial Countryside and The Common Ground, as well as his study of the nightingale, Whistling in the Dark... - List of Britannia documentaries