 | | | | | PROGRAMME INFO | | | | Sunday 06:35-07:00 | | | | | The Living World is a gentle, weekend natural history programme, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate wild encounters with British wildlife. In this series Brett Westwood reveals a flavour of Northumberland as he watches eider ducks, otters and red squirrels as well as visiting Keilder Forest.
nhuradio@bbc.co.uk | | | | | LISTEN AGAIN 25 min | | | | | Listen to 3 March | | | | | PRESENTER | | | | BRETT WESTWOOD | | |  | | | | "The Living World is the next best thing to being there. Our contributors are skilled naturalists who are able to reveal those fascinating facts about animals and plants that you don't always find in books. It's like having a personal guided tour of the countryside, without needing to leave the house."
Brett Westwood | | | | | | | | | | | PROGRAMME DETAILS | | | | Sunday 3 March 2002 | | |  | |
Cuddy's Duck
The eider duck, known locally as "Cuddy's" duck, is regarded as the first bird in the world to have been given conservation protection, when St Cuthbert offered the eider duck sanctuary on the Farne Islands in the seventh century. Today, they breed in vast numbers off the Northumbrian coast, and Brett Westwood travels to see the duck's colourful breeding plumage, and listen to the famous "crooning" calls of the males.
With guests Paul Morrison and Hilary Broker-Carey, Brett inspects the eider's breeding sites. The nests are lined with warm down, plucked from the females' own breast, a habit utilised by eider farmers in Iceland whereby small quantities of feathers are harvested from each nest and used in the manufacture of bedding. Brett discovers how it takes the feathers from 84 nests to make just one cosy eider duvet. | | |
RELATED LINKS
Northumberland Council: Eider duck
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