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Samuel West on the Capercaille

Actor Sam West describes how the turkey-like capercaillie makes unfathomably strange sounds reminiscent of a rolling snooker ball followed by a champagne cork being unscrewed for Tweet of the Day.

Producer: Tom Bonnett
Picture: Paul Jessett.

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Wed 8 Mar 202305:58
BBC Radio 4

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