Category Archives: Bird Order

Whitethroats from Scotland

Passeriformes #1

Place: Portnahaven, Islay, Scotland
Date: 9 June 2022.







Place: Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Scotland
Date: 12 June 2022.







[Curruca communis, Family Sylviidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common whitethroat]

The sound of the whitethroat (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Bas van de Meulengraaf)

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

Common Sandpipers from Scotland

Charadriiformes

Place: Coast Path from Garminy to Fishnish, Mull, Scotland
Date: 15 June 2022.





Place: Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Date: 20 June 2022.






Place: Mount Stuart Estate, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Date: 21 June 2022.



[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).
Distribution and sightings of the common sandpiper across the British Isles

Selected Stonechats

Passeriformes #2

Place: Coast path near Marloes, Pembrokeshire
Date: 29 April 2018.



Place: Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Bridgend County Borough
Date: 15 May 2018.





Place: Burges Island, Llanmadoc, Gower
Date: 22 July 2018.



Place: Rest Bay, Porthcawl
Date: 25 July 2019.



Place: Ancient Messini, Greece
Date: 9 September 2019.



Place: Conwy Mountain, North Wales
Date: 29 September 2020.


Place: Nash Point, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 2 November 2020.


Place: Porth Neigwl, Llyn peninsula, Gwynedd
Date: 5 December 2020.


Place: Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Date: 2 April 2021.


[Saxicola torquata, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common stonechat]

The sound of the stonechat (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Herman van Oosten)

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

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Columbiformes

Place: Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, Hampshire
Date: 7 August 2022.









[Goura victoria, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Victoria crowned pigeon]

The sound of the Victoria crowned pigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Iain Woxvold)

Himalayan Monal

Galliformes

Place: Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, Hampshire
Date: 7 August 2022.







[Lophophorus impejanus, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Himalayan monal]

The sound of the Himalayan monal (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Andrew Spencer)

Treecreepers

Passeriformes #2

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 9 April 2021.


Place: Longshaw Estate, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 27 May 2021.



Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 23 May 2022.




[Certhia familiaris, Family Certhiidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian treecreeper]

The sound of the treecreeper (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Volker Arnold)

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

Ostriches in the Zoo

Struthioniformes

Place: Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, Hampshire
Date: 7 August 2022.










[Struthio camelus, Family Struthionidae, Order Struthioniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Ostrich]

The sound of the ostrich (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jeremy Hegge)

Cockatiel

Psittaciformes

Place: Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 May 2022.




[Nymphicus hollansicus, Family Cacatuidae, Order Psittaciformes, Wikipedia Entry: Cockatiel]

The sound of the cockatiel (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marc Anderson)

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

Puffins on Lundy

Charadriiformes

Place: The Pyramid, Lundy Island
Date: 29 June 2021.





Place: North Lighthouse, Lundy Island
Date: 30 June 2021.




Place: Battery Point, Lundy Island
Date: 1 July 2021.













[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).
Distribution and sightings of the puffin across the British Isles

Buzzards from Scotland

Accipitriformes

Place: Threave Castle, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Date: 26 June 2019.


Place: Kerrera, Argyll & But
Date: 24 August 2021.












Place: Ferniniquarrie, Duirinish, Isle of Skye
Date: 31 August 2021.





Place: Old Man of Storr, Trotternish, Isle of Skye
Date: 3 September 2021.



Place: Insh Marshes, Kingussie, Scottish Highlands
Date: 12 September 2021.



Place: Ulva Ferry, Mull, Scotland
Date: 17 June 2022.


Place: Loch Torr, Mull, Scotland
Date: 18 June 2022.






[Buteo buteo, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common buzzard]

The sound of the buzzard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sander Bot)

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