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What happened to the birds in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'?

Oxford Sparks Big Questions by Fiona Jones

Dec 10, 202514:15Science & Medicine

We all know it. We've all sung it. Perhaps we've even answered a quiz question about it*. The Twelve Days of Christmas has become as quintessentially festive as a figgy pudding, or the bad joke in your Christmas cracker....

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What happened to the birds in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'? is an episode from Oxford Sparks Big Questions by Fiona Jones. We all know it. We've all sung it. Perhaps we've even answered a quiz question about it*. The Twelve Days of Christ...

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Published Dec 10, 2025, 14:15 long, audio available.

What happened to the birds in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'?

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