Martin Hughes-Games on the Snipe

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A new series of Tweet of the Day for Sunday morning revealing personal and fascinating stories inspired by birds, their calls and encounters. It's called 'aero elastic flutter' and for television producer and presenter Martin Hughes-Games the sound of a snipe drumming in the landscape is a strange but remarkable thing. Something which baffled ornithologists until the nineteenth century scientist Wilhelm Meves tied snipe tail feathers to a 4 foot long stick, whirled the stick around and hey presto managed to produce the sound. of a snipe drumming. Producer : Andrew Dawes of BBC Audio in Bristol Studio Engineer : Ilse Lademann