Birds Britannia

Birds Britannia is a BBC four-part television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown from 7 to 28 November 2010 on BBC Four.^[1] It was produced by Stephen Moss.

Birds Britannia
Genre	Natural history
Created by	BBC
Narrated by	Bill Paterson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer	Neil Nightingale
Producer	Stephen Moss
Production location	United Kingdom
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC Four
Release	3 November (2010-11-03) – 24 November 2010 (2010-11-24)

Each of the four, sixty-minute episodes concentrates on one kind of bird: garden birds, waterbirds, seabirds and birds of the countryside.^[1]

The series has no presenter, and is narrated by the Scottish actor Bill Paterson,^[1] with filmed interviews with a wide range of experts and bird enthusiasts, including David Attenborough, Mark Cocker, Jeremy Mynott, Tim Birkhead, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, Christopher Frayling, Kate Humble, Rob Lambert, Desmond Morris, David Lindo, Helen Macdonald, Andrew Motion, Tony Soper, and Bill Oddie.^[1]

In April 2011, a book of the same title by Stephen Moss was published by Collins (ISBN 978-0007413447).^[2]

See also

• Birds Britannica, a book by Cocker and Richard Mabey
• List of Britannia documentaries