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Bird Preservation

Date released

1978

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1012

NoS ID

329253

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: The British may know their birds, but how much do they care? Our reporter goes to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to find out how they are often abused, and how they are affected...

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Bird Traffic (1991 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale (video only - RSPB Film & Video Unit), Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £8.15 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Examines the international wild bird trade, showing wild birds trapped in their natural habitats in South America, Africa and Asia and transported to Europe. Looks at the resulting threat of extinction for...

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Thatcher praise for bird charity (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Mark Phillips reports on a visit by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the headquarters of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, Bedfordshire. During her tour the Prime Minister...

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Don’s Do’s and Don’ts No.5: a series of tips on gardening - nd [1984]

DON’S DO’S AND DON’TS NO.5 [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] A series of gardening tips, broadcast on Radio Victory, presented by DON JOHNSON. TRACK 1- In - It’s a month ago ... April sown vegetables -...

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Mud Matters (1988 Video)

Producer

Jeffery Boswall

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Hire (c/o Educational Distribution serivce) Sale (video only - RSPB Film & Video Unit), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 1997 sale: £8.15 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Shows the importance of Britain’s estuaries for as many as 20 species of bird. That they are endangered may spell disaster for the two million ducks, geese and wading shore birds which depend on them for...

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Talons! (1978 Film, Video)

Director

David Leighton

Producer

John Tomkins

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows specific behavioural aspects of individual British birds of prey and demonstrates their success as predators. Birds shown in action include the golden eagle, peregrine falcon, buzzard, kestrel,...

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Seabirds (1983 Film, Video)

Director

David Urry

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A study of how the hundreds of thousands of seabirds that throng the coasts of Britain in the breeding season have adapted to survive in a somewhat harsh environment. Ends with a brief plea for the...

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Concerning Swans (1984 Video)

Director

David Urry; Katie Urry

Producer

John Tomkins

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale (video only - RSPB Film & Video Unit), Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1997 sale: £8.15 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Shows the beauty and serene majesty of swans: whooper and Bewick’s swans in winter; mute swans courting and nest building in spring; cygnets; the swannery at Abbotsbury, the only surviving managed colony...

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Osprey (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Hugh Miles

Producer

John Tomkins

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Robert Powell tells how, for nearly 50 years, the shrill cry of the osprey was not heard in Scotland. The birds returned in the 1950s and have arrived each year since then to build their enormous eyries, to...

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Look Again at Gulls (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Anthony Clay

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Identifies the main British species of gull: kittewakes, greater black-backed, lesser black-backed, herring, common and black-headed gulls. Shows how by adaptability and versatility they profit from man, and...

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