Place: Cape Tenaro, The Mani, Greece
Date: 5 September 2019.
Place: Voidokoilia Beach, Messinia, Greece
Date: 11 September 2019.
[Galerida cristata, Family Alaudidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Crested lark]
The sound of the crested lark (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Lars Lachmann)
Distribution of the crested lark across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: London Zoo, London
Date: 9 October 2019.
[Pulsatrix perspicillata, Family Family Strigidae, Order Strigiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Spectacled owl]
The sound of the spectacled owl (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Fernando Igor de Godoy)
Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 27 September 2019.
Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 28 September 2019.
[Ardea alba, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great egret]
The sound of the great white egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Matheve)
Distribution and sightings of the great white egret across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: London Zoo, London
Date: 9 October 2019.
[Ciconia abdimii, Family Ciconiidae, Order Ciconiiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Abdim’s stork]
Place: Orchid Bog, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.
Place: Crab Bay, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.
Place: Winter Pond, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.
Place: Wick Valley, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.
Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.
[Larus fuscus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Lesser black-backed gull]
The sound of the lesser black-backed gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)
Distribution and sightings of the lesser black-backed gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Despite hearing the call of a corncrake on many occasions during my time in the Outer Hebrides, I never saw one. This is the closest I got – it can only have been a few yards away from the car, but still no cigar.
Place: Scurrival Point, Barra, Outer Hebrides
Date: 21 June 2019.
[Crex crex, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Corn crake]
The sound of the corncrake (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mathias Ritschard)
Distribution and sightings of the corncrake across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Waddesdon Manor aviaries, Buckinghamshire
Date: 1 May 2019.
[Polyplectron inopinatum, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mountain peacock-pheasant]
The sound of Rothschild’s peacock-pheasant (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ding Li Yong)
Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 April 2017.
[Anas platyrhynchos, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mallard]
The sound of the mallard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)
Distribution and sightings of the mallard across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Selinunte, Sicily, Italy
Date: 31 May 2016.
[Sturnus unicolor, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Spotless starling]
The sound of the spotless starling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Nick Talbot)
Place: Tolsta, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 10 June 2019.
[Linaria flavirostris, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Twite]
The sound of the twite (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the twite across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 