Countryfile's Hamza shares 'best part of job' as he makes history

Countryfile presenter Hamza Yassin took part in a conservation milestone by helping return a rare bird to the wild. The BBC One countryside show aired on BBC Two on Sunday, 5 July, with Anita Rani traveling along England’s east coast to explore wildlife and coastal life, while Hamza visited a bird reserve in Northumberland. Hamza went to Coquet Island, a protected RSPB-managed reserve off Northumberland’s shoreline that hosts 40,000 seabirds during the breeding season, including puffins and several tern species, and it is the UK’s only nesting site for the roseate tern. During winter, staff used a mist net to capture a woodlark, potentially the first ringed in Northumberland in 30 years, before Hamza released it under site manager Stephen Westerberg’s supervision.