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The robin in your garden can see the Earth's magnetic field. The jay on your fence post has been quietly building Britain's oak forests for thousands of years. The swift over your street hasn't landed in two years. These are the birds you see every day. And most people have no idea what they're actually doing. I'm Wren, and this is BIRDZNERDZ — a British birds podcast that takes the familiar and makes it extraordinary. Every episode, one bird, the full story. New episodes every Thursday and Sunday. Subscribe — and remember to look out and look up. 🐦

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    The Puffin on the postcard is lovely. The reality is extraordinary 🌊"

    Everyone loves the puffin. But almost nobody knows the real one. 🌊 The beak that glows under UV light. The chick that leaves its burrow alone at night and finds the ocean by starlight. The bird that beats its wings 400 times a minute and dives 60 metres for fish. The postcard is lovely. The reality is extraordinary. Full Episode out now! 🎙️ #BIRDZNERDZ #Puffin #AtlanticPuffin #BritishBirds #Seabirds #BirdwatchingUK #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #SeabirdConservation #BritishNature #PuffinLovers #CoastalWildlife #UKNature #NatureLovers

    1 min

  2. 1d ago

    The Toughest Bird you think you know - The Puffin

    That beak isn't just colourful. It glows. 🌊 Under ultraviolet light — which puffins can see and we can't — the yellow ridges of a puffin's bill light up in brilliant cyan-green. What looks vivid to us looks luminous to them. And that's just the start. The puffin dives to 60 metres, can carry 60 fish in a single bill-load, and sends its chick to the open ocean alone in the dark, guided only by starlight. The clown of the sea is also one of the most extraordinary birds in the North Atlantic. ! 🎙️ #BIRDZ #Puffin #AtlanticPuffin #BritishBirds #UKWildlife #BirdwatchingUK #BritishWildlife #Seabirds #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #UKNature #NatureLovers #BirdConservation #BritishNature #SeabirdConservation #PuffinLovers #NorthAtlantic #WildlifePhotography #CoastalWildlife

    19 min

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    The Bird that came back - Osprey

    The Osprey on BIRDZNERDZ quickfire look at Britain's most dramatic conservation comeback — the fishing raptor that corrects for physics, grips prey with velcro feet, and came back from extinction because enough people wanted it to. Full Episode out now. #BIRDZ #Osprey #BritishBirds #BirdsOfPrey #Raptors #BirdwatchingUK #UKWildlife #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #ConservationSuccess #ScottishWildlife #WildlifeUK #RaptorsOfInstagram #BritishNature #Rewilding #LochGarten #UKNature #NatureLovers #BirdConservation #Comeback

    1 min

  4. 4d ago

    The Bird that Defied extinction

    It was gone. Not rare — gone. 🦅 The last confirmed breeding Osprey in Britain was recorded in 1916. Hunted by gamekeepers, robbed by egg collectors, erased from these islands within a single human lifetime. And then, in 1954, a pair appeared at Loch Garten. Nobody put them there. They just came back. The Osprey corrects for light refraction mid-dive, grips fish with backward-facing spines on its feet, and crosses continents twice a year. It was wiped out. And we brought it home! 🎙️ #BIRDZNERDZ#Osprey #BritishBirds #UKWildlife #BirdwatchingUK #BritishWildlife #BirdsOfPrey #Raptors #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #ScottishWildlife #BirdConservation #UKNature #NatureLovers #ConservationSuccess #Rewilding #RaptorsOfInstagram #BritishNature #LochGarten

    16 min

  5. 6d ago

    The most dangerous week of a birds life.

    That bird sitting on your lawn isn't injured. It isn't lost. It isn't abandoned. It's a fledgling — and right now, all over Britain, millions of them are doing exactly the same thing: surviving the most dangerous window in a bird's entire life. In this short, we follow a fledgling robin from nest to first flight — what's actually happening, why the parents are still there (watching from the hedge with food in bill), and why the best thing you can do if you find one is walk away. Only 1 in 4 fledglings makes it through their first year. Here's how they try. 🐦 Remember to look out and look up. 📌 BIRDZNERDZ with Wren | @birdznerdz

    5 min

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    A hunter of extraordinary patience, Heron

    The grey heron hasn't moved in twenty minutes. That's notvacancy — that's precision. 🦤   The neck is held in a compressed S-shape like a coiled spring.The eyes are reading the water through refraction. And when the moment comes,the strike is faster than a human blink.   Full episode on BIRDZ 🎙️   #GreyHeron #BritishBirds #Birdwatching #UKWildlife#BirdsOfBritain #NatureShorts #WildlifeUK #HeronStrike #BIRDZ #NatureLovers#Birding

    22 sec

  7. Jun 4

    It passed a test only humans and great apes had passed before - The Magpie

    The Magpie is an episode of @BIRDZNERDZ where we get to meet one of Britain's most misunderstood birds — a corvid so cognitively sophisticated that it passed a test previously failed by every non-human animal on Earth, and whose reputation for theft, bad luck, and songbird murder turns out to be almost entirely wrong. #BIRDZ #Magpie #BritishBirds #UKWildlife #BirdwatchingUK #BritishWildlife #Corvids #IntelligentBirds #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #UKNature #NatureLovers #BirdNerd #BritishNature #GardenBirds #nature #magpie #WildlifePhotography #BirdsOfEurope #CorvidsOfInstagram #BirdBrain

    14 min

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    One For Wonder.Truth About the Magpie #birds #wildlife #nature #magpies #britishbirds #naturelovers

    The Magpie is a quickfire look at the bird on your fence post — why it's one of the most intelligent animals in Europe, why almost everything you've been told about it is wrong, and why it's almost certainly been watching you for longer than you realise full episode out now on @birdznerdz. #naturepodcast #birdznerdz #Magpie #BritishBirds #UKWildlife #BirdwatchingUK #BritishWildlife #Corvids #IntelligentBirds #NaturePodcast #BirdsOfInstagram #WildlifeUK #UKNature #NatureLovers #BirdNerd #BritishNature #GardenBirds #WildlifePhotography #BirdsOfEurope #CorvidsOfInstagram #birdbrain

    1 min
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The robin in your garden can see the Earth's magnetic field. The jay on your fence post has been quietly building Britain's oak forests for thousands of years. The swift over your street hasn't landed in two years. These are the birds you see every day. And most people have no idea what they're actually doing. I'm Wren, and this is BIRDZNERDZ — a British birds podcast that takes the familiar and makes it extraordinary. Every episode, one bird, the full story. New episodes every Thursday and Sunday. Subscribe — and remember to look out and look up. 🐦

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  • Creator
    Wren
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    73
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Wren
  • Show Website
    Birdznerdz