Category Archives: Bird Order

Barnacle Geese

Anseriformes

Place: Llangorse Common, Powys
Date: 3 April 2023.

















[Branta leucopsis, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Barnacle goose]

The sound of the barnacle goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Willem-Pier Vellinga)

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

Selected Magpies

Passeriformes #1

Place: Scarborough, Yorkshire
Date: 1 November 2015.


Place: Brandon Hill near Cabot Tower, Bristol
Date: 10 April 2016.



Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2021.


Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 October 2022.





Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 22 January 2023.


Place: Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2023.


[Pica pica, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian magpie]

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

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

Sparrowhawk at Somerset Levels

Accipitriformes

Place: Viewing Platform #2, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.







[Accipiter nisus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian sparrowhawk]

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

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

Injured Gannet

Suliformes

Place: Ventry Harbour, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 7 September 2022.





[Morus bassanus, Family Sulidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern gannet]

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

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

Pallas’s Sandgrouse (Stuffed Specimen)

Pterocliformes

Place: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
Date: 22 March 2023.



[Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Family Pteroclidae, Order Pterocliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Pallas’s sandgrouse]

The sound of Pallas’s sandgrouse (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stanislas Wroza)

Snipe Back at Forest Farm

Charadriiformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.








Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.














[Gallinago gallinago, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common snipe]

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

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

Great Tits

Passeriformes #1

Place: Lower Town of Mystras, Laconia, Greece
Date: 4 September 2019.


Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2020.


Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.



Place: Packwood House, Warwickshire
Date: 28 March 2022.



Place: Entrance to Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 April 2022.


Place: RSPB Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 19 April 2023.



Place: Viewing Platform #1, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 20 April 2023.


[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).
Distribution and sightings of the great tit across the British Isles

Selected Wheatears, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: Levant Mine, Trewellard, Cornwall
Date: 20 April 2019.


Place: Tyrins, Greece
Date: 1 September 2019.



Place: Stiperstones National Nature Reserve, Shropshire
Date: 11 August 2020.


Place: Hadrian’s Wall near Sycamore Gap, Northumbria
Date: 12 June 2021.


Place: Coast Path between St. Justinians and Porthclais, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 May 2022.







Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 5 July 2022.


Place: Non’s Chapel, St.David, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 August 2022.



Place: Downpatrick Head, County Mayo, Ireland
Date: 1 September 2022.




Place: Coast path between St. Justinians and Porthlysgi Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 26 April 2023.






[Oenanthe oenanthe, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern wheatear]

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

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

Selected Wheatears, Part 1

Passeriformes #2

Place: Northern Meadows, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.



Place: Carn Llundain, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.



Place: Llanrhidian Salt Marshes, Gower
Date: 9 August 2018.


Place: Southend, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.



Place: North-west corner of Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 20 May 2019.


Place: Rhossili, Gower
Date: 16 July 2019.


Place: Coast path between Abereiddi and Porthgain
Date: 3 September 2020.


Place: Coast path near Moelfre, Anglesey
Date: 23 September 2020.


Place: St. David’s Head, Pembrokeshire
Date: 15 July 2021.


[Oenanthe oenanthe, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern wheatear]

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

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