Richard Collins

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767 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Sep

Richard Collins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Mooney Goes Wild · Pigeons Galore! · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

There's a reason why you would move house if you were a bird, bec if you would sit on the nest for a week or two and a young in it for a couple of weeks, parasites, th things that infect your plumage and bite you and things like that, ticks and fleas and creepy crawlies of various kinds, they are in the nest and they've lay their eggs in there. matched

Now by moving to a new nest you outwit these. matched

They've got to start again from scratch. matched

But so it's always a toss up whether you're going to stay with the old nest and push up with the residents, the other residents, or whether you're going to build a new one. matched

So moving house it may be as an incentive, but you of course you've got to make a big effort to move house. matched

So it's swings and roundabouts, you've got to trade them off and make a decision on that basis. matched

No, there is a deeper mystery here, I think, and it is why do the birds not have feathers on their tarsi? matched

Remember birds are all their what, excuse me? matched

Their tarsi are the the parts of the the bare parts of the legs. matched

It's actually part of the wrist of the bird, if you like. matched

But anyway, these tarsi are bare in most birds, though not in all. matched

No, birds always want to cover up because he matched

Loss is a big problem. matched

You're losing heat from your legs and your feet. matched

So logic would say, well, cover up this bloomin' thing 'cause it's looting heat on it. matched

And some birds do. matched

For instance, you take the eagle as you the golden eagle has a feather, he covers up his legs and looks lovely as a result. matched

White tailed eagle, the fish eagle, the sea eagle, it does not. matched

It has bear legs. matched

Now, I suspect that it has bear legs simply because it's a big thing. matched

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