Category Archives: Bird Order

Wire-tailed Swallow

Passeriformes #1

Place: Okavango River, Botswana
Date: 19 August 2012.








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


[Hirundo smithii, Family Hirundinidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Wire-tailed swallow]

The sound of the wire-tailed swallow (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)

James’s Flamingo

Phoenicopteriformes

Place: Wetland Centre Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Date: 14 February 2010.


[Phoenicoparrus jamesi, Family Phoenicopteridae, Order Phoenicopteriformes, Wikipedia Entry: James’s flamingo]

The sound of James’s flamingo (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Ruddy Ground Dove

Columbiformes

Place: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 27 April 2014.




Place: Abraão, Ihla Grande, Brazil
Date: 30 April 2014.




[Columbina talpacoti, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Ruddy ground dove]

The sound of the ruddy ground dove (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jerome Fischer)

Young Peafowl

Galliformes

Place: Brownsea Island, Dorset
Date: 10 October 2015.






[Pavo cristatus, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Indian peafowl]

The sound of peafowl (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mandar Bhagat)

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

Little Bee-eater

Coraciiformes

Place: Okavango River, Botswana
Date: 20 August 2012.








Place: Victoria Falls, Zambia
Date: 23 August 2012.


[Merops pusillus, Family Meropidae, Order Coraciiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Little bee-eater]

The sound of the little bee-eater (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)

Nazca Boobie

Suliformes

Place: Genovesa, Galapagos
Date: 17 August 2010.


[Sula granti, Family Sulidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Nazca booby]

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

Iberian Magpie

Passeriformes #1

Place: Acebuche, Andalucia
Date: 14 June 2015.



[Cyanopica cooki, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Iberian magpie]

The sound of the Iberian magpie (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist José Carlos Sires)

Confused Juvenile Great Tit

Passeriformes #1

Place: Three Cliffs Bay, Gower Pensinsula, South Wales
Date: 22 May 2011.


[Parus major, Family Paridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great tit]

The sound of the great tit (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stein Ø. Nilsen)

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

Great Grey Owl

Strigiformes

Place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Date: 7 April 2012.





[Strix nebulosa, Family Strigidae, Order Strigiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great grey owl]

The sound of the great grey owl (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jelmer Poelstra)