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's four-part television series about the
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
s of the United Kingdom, first shown from 7 to 28 November 2010 on
BBC Four.
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
Mark Cocker (born 1959) is a British author and naturalist. He lives with his wife, Mary Muir, and two daughters in Claxton, Norfolk; the countryside around Claxton is a theme for two of his twelve books.
Cocker has written extensively for ...
,
Jeremy Mynott,
Tim Birkhead
Timothy Robert Birkhead One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1950) is a British ornithologist. He has been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield ...
,
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall Jane Margaret Fearnley-Whittingstall (''née'' Lascelles) (born 1939 in Kensington, London) is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She won two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Personal life
Daughter of Co ...
,
Christopher Frayling,
Kate Humble
Katherine Mary Humble (born 12 December 1968) is an English television presenter and narrator, mainly working for the BBC, specialising in wildlife and science programmes. Humble served as President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Bi ...
,
Rob Lambert,
Desmond Morris
Desmond John Morris FLS ''hon. caus.'' (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book '' The Naked Ape'', and for his televis ...
,
David Lindo,
Helen Macdonald,
Andrew Motion,
Tony Soper, and
Bill Oddie
William Edgar Oddie (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, comedian, songwriter, musician, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies.
A birder since his childhood in Quinto ...
.
It has been announced that a book of the same title, by Stephen Moss, will be published by
Collins
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in April 2011 ().
See also
* ''
Birds Britannica'', a book by Cocker and
Richard Mabey
Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture.
Education
Mabey was educated at three independent schools, all in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. The first was at Roth ...
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List of ''Britannia'' documentaries
References
External links
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BBC Natural History blog entry by producer Stephen MossGarden birds video clips from ''Birds Britannia'' on BBC Nature
BBC television documentaries
2010s British documentary television series
Nature educational television series
2010 British television series debuts
2010 British television series endings
English-language television shows
Birds in the United Kingdom
Films about birds
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