Green Woodpecker Scoffing Ants

Piciformes

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 20 August 2017.

















[Picus viridis, Family Picidae, Order Piciformes, Wikipedia Entry: European green woodpecker]

The sound of the green woodpecker (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Olivier Grosselet)

Distribution and sightings of the green woodpecker across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Still More Forest Farm Kingfishers

Coraciiformes

Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 1 September 2017, 7 September 2017, 12 September 2017, 3 October 2017, 19 November 2017, 30 December 2017.

A continuation of Kingfisher Central and More Forest Farm Kingfishers.


1 September 2017

7 September 2017

12 September 2017

3 October 2017

19 November 2017

30 December 2017

Glamorganshire Canal

Bird Hide #1

Bird Hide #2

[Alcedo atthis, Family Alcedinidae, Order Coraciiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kingfisher]

The sound of the kingfisher (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

Distribution and sightings of the kingfisher across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the kingfisher across the British Isles

Greater Flamingoes from Sardinia

Phoenicopteriformes

Place: Torre Salinas, Sardinia, Italy
Date: 11/12 June 2017.













Place: Arborea Lido, Sardinia, Italy
Date: 16/17 June 2017.












[Phoenicopterus roseus, Family Phoenicopteridae, Order Phoenicopteriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Greater flamingo]

The sound of the greater flamingo (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jerome Fischer)

Distribution and sightings of the greater flamingo across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the greater flamingo across the British Isles

Feral Pigeon Alternative Takeaway

Columbiformes

Place: Salisbury, Wiltshire
Date: 20 February 2011.

Person: “Yuk! That’s sick!”
Pigeon: “Yes, I know. Lovely, isn’t it?”


[Columba livia, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Feral pigeon]

The sound of the feral pigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

Distribution and sightings of the feral pigeon across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Spotted Flycatcher Nest

Passeriformes #2

Place: Orosei, Sardinia, Italy
Date: 10/11 June 2017.

















[Muscicapa striata, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Spotted flycatcher]

The sound of the spotted flycatcher (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the spotted flycatcher across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Blackpool Murmuration

Passeriformes #2

Place: North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire
Date: 25 February 2018.













[Sturnus vulgaris, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common starling]

The sound of the starling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the starling across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the starling across the British Isles

Kittiwake Chicks

Charadriiformes

Place: Bullers of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: 16 July 2017.











[Rissa tridactyla, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-legged kittiwake]

The sound of the kittiwake (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the kittiwake across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Italian Shelduck

Anseriformes

Place: Arborea Lido, Sardinia, Italy
Date: 17 June 2017.





Place: Salt pans near Portopalo di Capo Passero, Sicily, Italy
Date: 25 May 2016.


Place: Vendicari Nature Reserve, Sicily, Italy
Date: 25 May 2016.



[Tadorna tadorna, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common shelduck]

The sound of the shelduck (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

Distribution and sightings of the shelduck across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Nightingale

Passeriformes #2

Place: San Pere de Rodes, Catalunya, Spain
Date: 19 June 2016.






[Luscinia megarhynchos, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common nightingale]

The sound of the nightingale (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mathias Ritschard)

Distribution of the nightingale across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

More Forest Farm Dunnocks

Passeriformes #3

Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 November 2017.


Place: Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 18 December 2017.


Place: Melingruffydd feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 February 2018.




Place: Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 20 February 2018.




[Prunella modularis, Family Prunellidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Dunnock]

The sound of the dunnock (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the dunnock across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the dunnock across the British Isles