Black Guillemot

Charadriiformes

Place: St. Ninian’s Isle, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.

Place: Bressay, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.

Place: Noss, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.

Place: Mousa, Shetland Islands
Date: 11 June 2018.

[Cepphus grylle, Family Alcidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black guillemot]

The sound of the black guillemot (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hugh Harrop)

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

Common Sandpiper

Charadriiformes

Place: Torreira, Aveiro, central coastal of Portugal
Date: 25 August 2013.

Place: Comporta, south of Setubal, central coast of Portugal
Date: 9 September 2018.

Place: Sagres harbour, south-western tip of Portugal
Date: 12 September 2018.

[Actitis hypoleucos, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common sandpiper]

The sound of the common sandpiper (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

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

Shetland Common Gull

Charadriiformes

Place: Grutness, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.

Place: Braewick Cafe, Shetland Mainland
Date: 12 June 2018.

[Larus canus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common gull]

The sound of the common gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

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

Sanderling

Charadriiformes

Place: Minn Beach, Shetland Mainland
Date: 13 June 2018.

Place: Norwick, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 15 June 2018.

[Calidris alba, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sanderling]

The sound of the sanderling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Driver)

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

Great Skua Showing Displacement Behaviour

Charadriiformes

Place: Hermaness, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 16 June 2018.

Having failed to frighten me away from its nesting area, this great skua has chosen instead to try and vent its aggression on a poor lamb and its mother.

[Stercorarius skua, Family Stercorariidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great skua]

The sound of the great skua (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Dougie Preston)

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

Puffling

Charadriiformes

Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.

[Fratercula arctica, Family Alcidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Atlantic puffin]

The sound of the puffin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Petter Kristoffersen)

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

Sandwich Terns

Charadriiformes

Place: Inner Farne, Farne Islands, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.

[Thalasseus sandvicensis, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sandwich tern]

The sound of the Sandwich tern (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Farrow)

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

Ringed Plover Faking Injury

Charadriiformes

Place: Hagdale Horse Mill, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 16 June 2018.

If you remember certain nature programmes showing a bird pretending to be injured to lure a would-be predator away from the nest, that’s what’s happening here: the ringed plover was writhing on the ground with an outstretched wing, then sat up, looking if I took the bait, and continued to play-act until I was sufficiently far away from its nest.

[Charadrius hiaticula, Family Charadriidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common ringed plover]

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

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

Arctic Skua

Charadriiformes

Place: Noss, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.

[Stercorarius parasiticus, Family Stercorariidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Parasitic jaeger]

The sound of the Arctic skua (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Lauri Hallikainen)

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

South Coast Black-tailed Godwits

Charadriiformes

Place: Hengistbury Head, Dorset
Date: 5 February 2018.

Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 6 February 2018.

Place: Seaton Wetlands, Devon
Date: 14 March 2018.

[Limosa limosa, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-tailed godwit]

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

Distribution and sightings of the black-tailed godwit across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).