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Twite Recovery Project - A Guide to Twite Identification

The twite, or 'Pennine Finch' as it is known locally, is a small brown bird that has bred in the uplands of Britain for at least 8 thousand years. However, over the last 14 years, numbers have nosedived by over 90% in England, and now there are only about 100 breeding pairs, living in about 20 colonies - mainly in the South Pennines. Most seed-eating songbirds feed their chicks on insects, but twite and their chicks are unusual in feeding almost entirely on seed. The Twite Recovery Project is working with farmers and landowners to help restore and maintain hay meadows close to the moorland edges where the twite nest, thus providing essential food sources for this charming little bird, in an effort to help reverse its fortunes and save it from further decline. Educational film made for the Twite Recovery Project and featured on the RSPB website, Twite Recovery Projects website and Pennine Prospects website. An electronic version is being shown to farmers and landowners as part of an on-going educational project. Clips from the video were used to illustrate "A Bird Called Twite", part of the BBC Countryfile program first broadcast on 15th April 2012.