Nicola Davis
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498 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Nicola Davis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The birds that made it through had a brave new world in front of them.
With less competition, they had endless opportunities to flourish.
Out of this one group came a huge diversity of birds.
According to one study, in the past 120,000 years, humans have managed to drive at least 1,400 bird species to extinction.
That's about 12% of the total.
And now we're doing it at a faster rate than ever before.
The incredible creatures whose ancestors long ago made it through one of the worst cataclysms imaginable is being wiped out by us.
So what is the prognosis for birds today?
If you look at the statistics, the numbers and trends, it all seems pretty dire.
But zoom out and take a paleontologist perspective and a more hopeful picture emerges.
A huge thanks to Professor Steve Brassati.
His book is The Story of Birds and it's out in the UK on the 11th of June.
And that's it for today.
This episode was produced by Madeleine Finlay.
It was sound designed by Ross Burns and the executive producer is Ellie Burey.
We'll be back on Thursday.
See you then.
It's a multifaceted condition.
So women who have it often have irregular periods, sometimes no periods, irregular ovulation.
Sometimes there's excess hair, so facial hair, body hair,
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