4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith chat to Roger about the remarkable life of the Manxie.
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0:36.2 | The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.4 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing the Scotland Outdoors podcast. |
0:49.6 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:50.9 | Perhaps because we're surrounded by them, more or less all the time, and they're pretty easy to see, both you and I, you and McElwreath, my colleague, are absolutely fascinated by birds. |
1:00.9 | One of the positive things of lockdown is it's given us time to look at birds in depth, the mythology, the folklore, the natural history. |
1:11.0 | There is one particular species that we're going to concentrate on in this podcast, |
1:16.0 | and it's got a story that begins and ends in Scotland. |
1:20.2 | Roger Morgan Grenville is author of a new book called Shearwater, |
1:23.4 | which tracks the journey of one of nature's great travellers, the Manx Shearwater. |
1:27.9 | Roger, thanks very much for joining us. |
1:29.7 | It's a pleasure. It's lovely to be with you. |
1:31.4 | You became fascinated by Manx Shear Waters when you were a child, but it was basically |
1:36.0 | on the island of Mull and the Inner Hebrides. |
1:37.8 | Yeah, my grandmother moved up there. She lost her husband early and moved up and just |
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