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20 Facts About Springwatch

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Springwatch brand has expanded to incorporate further TV spin-offs and specials, and has a strong online presence.

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The BBC Springwatch website offers further video content and allows viewers and programme makers to interact through a message board, Flickr photography group, blogs and the @BBCSpringwatch and @BBCAutumnwatch Twitter accounts.

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The origins of Springwatch can be traced back to the 1970s, when the development of image-intensifying cameras enabled animals to be filmed in the dark.

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4.

Springwatch tracked brent geese on their spring migration from Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland to their breeding grounds in Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, via stopovers in Iceland and Greenland.

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CBeebies Springwatch returned to CBeebies for 2007 alongside Springwatch Trackers, which aired on CBBC, presented live from the farm each morning by Steve Backshall and Kirsten O'Brien.

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6.

The 2007 edition of CBeebies Springwatch was repeated that year and would be the final year the series would air, being scrapped in favour of Green Balloon Club.

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7.

Springwatch returned for its fifth series, broadcast from 25 May to 11 June 2009.

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8.

Springwatch joined Kate Humble for the show's second year based at Pensthorpe.

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The Springwatch website continued to host regularly updated blogs, message boards and webcams, as well as wildlife information.

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10.

Springwatch was filming puffins and during the week introduced a new webcam.

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11.

Springwatch was set the task of filming live foxes, and succeeded.

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12.

Springwatch returned to BBC Two and BBC HD on 28 May 2012, live and direct from Ynys-hir RSPB reserve in Wales for three weeks, Monday to Thursday.

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13.

In 2014 Springwatch celebrated its tenth anniversary by moving to a new base at RSPB Minsmere in North Suffolk.

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14.

Springwatch Unsprung, hosted by Baker, was shown after the main programme, online and on the BBC Red Button from Mondays to Wednesdays and on BBC Two on Thursdays.

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15.

Springwatch aired in 2016 between 30 May and 16 June live from RSPB Minsmere.

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16.

Springwatch was broadcast from a new site near Nethy Bridge on the edge of the Abernethy Forest in the Cairngorms National Park.

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17.

Success of the first series of Springwatch led to the BBC and the Woodland Trust collaborating to launch an appeal for sightings of the approach of autumn.

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18.

Springwatch then followed up sightings of otters in a Walsall canal, but although his team found traces of the animals, they didn't manage to film them.

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19.

Springwatch was eventually replaced by Gillian Burke seven years later.

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20.

For Springwatch 2019 Gillian Burke was a field reporter for episodes 1 to 11, returning to the main studio for the last show.

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