All posts by marnixr

Great Egret

Pelecaniformes

Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: 3 May 2014.




Place: Iguaçu Falls, Brazil
Date: 23 April 2014.


Place: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 27 April 2014.



[Ardea alba, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great egret]

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

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

Seriema

Cariamiformes

Place: Iguaçu Bird Park, Brazil
Date: 23 April 2014.







[Cariama cristata, Family Cariamidae, Order Cariamiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-legged seriema]

The sound of the seriema (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Fernando Igor de Godoy)

Hood Mockingbird

Passeriformes #2

Place: Espanola, Galapagos
Date: 13 August 2010.



[Mimus macdonaldi, Family Mimidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Hood mockingbird]

The sound of the Hood mockingbird (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Eric DeFonso)

Pheasant

Galliformes

Place: Arundel, West Sussex
Date: 5 May 2012.




Place: Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
Date: 4 November 2015.



Place: near Clovelly, Devon
Date: 17 February 2013.


[Phasianus colchicus, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common pheasant]

The sound of the pheasant (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)

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

Plain-backed Pipit

Passeriformes #3

Place: Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Date: 30 August 2012.



[Anthus leucophrys, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Plain-backed pipit]

The sound of the plain-backed pipit (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)

Egyptian Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Chobe National Park, Botswana
Date: 25 August 2012.


Place: Osterley Park, west of London
Date: 5 December 2015.





[Alopochen aegyptiaca, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Egyptian goose]

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

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

Masked Flowerpiercer

Passeriformes #3

Place: Guango hummingbird sanctuary, Ecuador
Date: 6 August 2010.


[Diglossa cyanea, Family Thraupidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Masked flowerpiercer]

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