Iolo's Secret Life of Birds — S01E01 — Dawn Chorus

00:00:02 A bird's life in Wales must seem the most pleasant existence

00:01:20 During Spring, they're busy raising new families.

00:03:00 The Beacons' highest peak, Pen y Fan, is in the distance.

00:04:02 You can identify all of them from their calls and their songs.

00:05:08 It's a bird called a snipe

00:06:41 Here too, it's an early start for the birds.

00:07:46 I think it's all lungs because it doesn't burst into song,

00:08:57 They've found that the males with the longest and most intricate songs

00:10:18 some birds make do with a very simple one.

00:11:07 There he goes. He's going off to feed her for a while

00:12:37 and this is something all urban birds have to get used to.

00:13:56 Not all birds sing from a perch.

00:15:13 That's why you'll get lots of them. There are dozens of them.

00:16:52 They are loud, very harsh and often staccato

00:18:00 This is an interesting situation in a woodland near Harlech.

00:19:36 Some birds have calls that are so complicated

00:21:07 They say that ravens have more than 30 different calls

00:22:09 It's thought the volume and nature of a call

00:23:36 But the most impressive communication show in Wales,

00:24:38 Here they go again, look at that! A wave of starlings coming over.

00:25:48 By the time every bird has found a perch,

00:26:57 The winner will be the top bird of this patch.

00:28:24 And for this male, all the effort has paid off.

00:29:45 That will be my next Secret Life of Birds.