Place: National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire
Dates: 25 July 2016.
[Falco columbarius, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Merlin (bird)]
The sound of the merlin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tayler Brooks)
Distribution and sightings of the merlin across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 