Tweet of the Day is a British radio programme that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on weekdays at 05:58 from Monday to Friday.^[1] The original format of an episode is a short programme of 90 seconds, the original series featuring the song or sounds of a British bird, visitor, or bird chorus and a few facts about each bird described by a BBC wildlife presenter.^[1]

The first episode was broadcast on 6 May 2013 and featured the song of the male common cuckoo presented by David Attenborough.^[1][2] The series won the Broadcasting Press Guild's award for radio programme of the year in 2014.^[3] The series was scheduled across a year, by the end of which 266 different bird sounds had been featured.^[1] The original series was repeated before Series Two.

A follow-up series Tweet of the Day: World Birds, featured a mix of worldwide and British bird species. A third series features very little birdsong, but instead features a guest describing the effect a particular species' calls has had on them personally. The current broadcasts are two-week batches of repeats.^[4]

Presenters

The original series was presented by David Attenborough, Miranda Krestovnikoff, Steve Backshall, Michaela Strachan, Brett Westwood, Bill Oddie, Chris Packham, John Aitchison, Kate Humble, Liz Bonnin and Martin Hughes-Games.^[5]

The second series included the above presenters, as well as Michael Palin and others

Sound recordists

• Original series - Chris Watson, Gary Moore, Geoff Sample, and Simon Elliott.^[5]
• Second series - Recordings sourced from various audio libraries worldwide.