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Talking Naturally

Charlie Moores / Rare Bird Alert / WildSounds

Talking Naturally is a fortnightly podcast discussing birds, wildlife, conservation and whatever else interests us and we think will interest you. Presented by Charlie Moores, a long-term birder with a passion for conservation and animal welfare and is produced jointly by Rare Bird Alert and WildSounds & Books. Rare Bird Alert is the longest running instant bird news service in the UK providing birders with up-to-the minute sightings of rare and scarce birds to turn up in Britain via pagers, smartphone app and online. WildSounds & Books are a leading international supplier of wildlife books audio & multimedia guides that donates a significant proportion of its profits to bird conservation organisations.

  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Sir.David Attenborough - Conservation, Education, and Inspiration
    In episode five of Talking Naturally we have natural history royalty in the shape of Sir David Attenborough's and his speech at the opening of the Simon Aspinall Wildlife and Education Centre at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust Cley reserve in Norfolk. We have a chat with Rachel French, who works at Mull Eagle Watch (that's White-tailed Eagle Watch of course), and with YOLObirder - a 'mystery birder 'who designed and then sold what he named the Hen Diagram t-shirt to raise money for Hen Harriers...Yes, we wander about the place here on Talking Naturally!
    1 January 1970, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Hen Harrier Day 2016
    Episode 30 is all about Hen Harrier Day 2016, a nationwide protest at the vanishingly low numbers of breeding Hen Harriers in England, where the scientific consensus is clear: there should be more than three hundred pairs but in 2016 there were just three: illegal persecution has brought the Hen Harrier to the brink of being wiped out as a breeding species in England. This podcast is a series of vox pops and in-the-field conversations, with birders, naturalists, political leaders, and leading conservationists including Mark Avery and Chris Packham.'.
    15 August 2016, 3:05 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Britain's Birds: The Making of a Field Guide
    So, you and your mates decide you'd like to produce a definitive photographic field guide to the birds of Britian and Ireland. You think about what's needed and ten years later, having sifted through a quarter of a million photos and enlisted one of the UK's top birders to write the text, it's finally out. Is it what you hoped? Is it what birders have been waiting for? Or are we all switching to apps, and is a new field-guide what's needed anyway? Andy Swash and Rob Hume give us their thoughts.'.
    2 August 2016, 10:45 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Wildlife Crime and Grey Parrots
    Episode 31 is in two parts. First a recording from this year's British Birdfair of Charlie Moores (Talking Naturally and BAWC), Dominic Dyer (CEO of the Badger Trust), and Mike Dilger (ecologist and TV presenter eg the BBC's One Show), discussing wildlife crime, then a conversation with the World Parrot Trust's Africa Programme Manager Dr Rowan Martin on why the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species must move the Grey Parrot from Appendix 2 to Appendix 1 and end the trade in wild-caught birds.'.
    2 August 2016, 9:00 am
  • 26 minutes 27 seconds
    Pedalling for Parrots
    A shorter than usual Talking Naturally conversation, a fact we're cunningly disguising by calling it a 'Special' - which isn't to say that isn't special, just a bit short. This one is about parrots, and I talked with David Woolcock, curator at Hayle's Paradise Park, about an hour after I finished a 24 hour, 200 mile cycle ride - Pedal for Parrots - from Wiltshire to the Hayle Estuary in Cornwall, raising funds for the World Parrot Trust.'.
    21 July 2016, 10:50 am
  • 59 minutes 6 seconds
    Mental Health
    Episode 28 and this time around we are swapping out our own 'birds conservation wildlife' tag for something completely different. We're talking about mental health with Tris Reid, aka The Inked Naturalist, a conservationist/general naturalist who has become well-known for wearing his heart on his sleeve and covering most visible parts of his body with tattoos of birds. Why the change in focus? Because while this podcast might not work for most people, if it helps even one listener it will have been worth posting it.'.
    4 July 2016, 9:30 am
  • 54 minutes 32 seconds
    TN Special Kielder Water
    Owned by Northumbrian Water, Kielder Water holds a staggering 200 billion litres of water, making it the largest reservoir in the UK by capacity with a shoreline that is almost exactly the same as the length of a marathon! The reservoir itself is the centre-piece of the Kielder Water and Forest Park which boasts the largest working forest in England. Wildlife? Ospreys, Otters, Red Squirrels, Water Voles, Adders and much, more more...'.
    14 June 2016, 11:26 am
  • 29 minutes 37 seconds
    Baer's Pochard: nondescript, poorly-known, and Critically Endangered
    Named after Estonian explorer Karl Ernst von Baer, east Asia's Baer's Pochard is (to quote Richard Hearns at Slimbridge) 'nondescript' and 'poorly-known'. Why is it worth discussing then? Listed as Critically Endangered in 2012, the species is in freefall and it's clear that without concerted conservation action it could soon be gone forever.'.
    6 June 2016, 10:20 am
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    TN Special Derwent Reservoir
    In this special Talking Naturally podcast about Derwent Reservoir, produced in association with Northumbrian Water Limited, we'll talk wildlife and water, meet two sets of ringers, find out what a ranger does, and talk with Northumbrian Water's Conservation and Land Manager. Water companies have conservation managers? They sure do.'.
    31 May 2016, 2:55 pm
  • 56 minutes 20 seconds
    Cleaning up Beaches
    Episode 26 and we have two interviews linked by beaches and things that - most of us will probably agree - shouldn't be on them: feral cats and trash. First up is Grant Sizemore of the American Bird Conservancy discussing plans to sue New York State Parks for maintaining a colony of neutered feral cats which are endangering breeding Piping Plovers, then Martin Dorey, founder of #2minutebeachclean who is asking everyone to do just a little bit to help keep beaches free of plastics and other trash.'.
    16 May 2016, 10:50 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Hedgehogs and Hounds Off
    Episode 25 and we have two interviews and both begin with the letter H: we're talking Hedgehogs with Charlie Creek of Willows Hedgehog Rescue, and hunt trespass with Joe Hashman of Hounds Off Both are creating a hub of information, both are working to halt harm to our wildlife...so hip hip hooray to the both of them.'.
    3 May 2016, 10:30 am
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