Name: Magnus Robb - A Day in Portugal with Charlie Moores by The Sound Approach
Duration: 35 min 16 s
Description: Charlie joins Magnus Robb for a morning of listening in the Portuguese cork-oak woods, where they discuss some of Magnus’s favourite tracks from The Beauty of The Sound Approach LP.

Ariant, Mallorca - Dawn Chorus - 16/05/24 @ 06:18

Ariant, Mallorca, Pre - Dawn Chorus - 17/05/24 @ 05:00

Ariant, Mallorca Nocturnal Sound Scape - 16/05/24 @ 23:35

Charlie talks with Anna Clayton, a writer and researcher at Ethical Consumer magazine, shortly after the launch of a report she had written on the optics industry titled ‘Shooting Wildlife’ – Who makes your binoculars, cameras and spotting scopes.

The Sound Approach Podcast

Anna Clayton - Shooting Wildlife

Named after Estonian scientist and explorer Karl Ernst von Baer, Baer’s Pochard is a poorly-known but Critically Endangered species of East Asian duck. Charlie visited the Wildfowl and Wetlands’ Slimbridge Wetland Centre to talk with Richard Hearn, WWT’s Head of Monitoring.

Richard Hearn - Baer's Pochard

Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), Challow Hill, Dorset, England, 09:00, 1 June 2008 (Mark Constantine). 

Crowing and wing flutter of a male. Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus), common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), common blackbird (Turdus merula), song thrush (Turdus philomelos) and European robin (Erithacus rubecula).

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Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Challow Hill, Dorset, England, 09:00, 1 June 2008 (Mark Constantine). 

Song of a male. Background: rook (Corvus frugilegus), Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris), Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), song thrush (Turdus philomelos), dunnock (Prunella modularis) and Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).

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Common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), Challow Hill, Dorset, England, 19:11, 4 May 2010 (Mark Constantine). 

One of the two males sings to the accompaniment of church bells. Background: Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), common blackbird (Turdus merula), song thrush (Turdus philomelos), Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) and common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs).

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Tawny owl (Strix aluco), Middlebere, Dorset, England, 19:41, 29 April 2011 (Mark Constantine). 

Kuwick calls as a female emerges from her roost and flies past at fairly close range, being mobbed by common blackbird (Turdus merula). Background: greater Canada goose (Branta canadensis), common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna), Eurasian reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), song thrush (Turdus philomelos) and European robin (Erithacus rubecula).

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Charlie joins Magnus Robb for a morning of listening in the Portuguese cork-oak woods, where they discuss some of Magnus’s favourite tracks from The Beauty of The Sound Approach LP.

Magnus Robb - A Day in Portugal with Charlie Moores

The Sound Approach

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