Selected Kestrels

Falconiformes

Place: Leeds Castle, Kent
Date: 4 July 2016.

Place: Punta del Dichoso, Suances, Cantabria, northern Spain
Date: 19 September 2018.

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

Place: Shieldaig Falconry, Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands
Date: 10 September 2021.

Place: Oxwich National Nature Reserve, Gower
Date: 22 July 2022.

Place: Lavenham, Suffolk
Date: 30 September 2022.

[Falco tinnunculus, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kestrel]

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

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

Sedge Warblers

Passeriformes #1

Place: RSPB Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 20 April 2023.

Place: Top Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 29 April 2023.

Place: Second Withy, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 18 May 2023.

Place: Second Withy, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2023.

Place: Porthor, Gwynedd
Date: 20 May 2023.

[Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Family Acrocephalidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sedge warbler]

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

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

More Selected Black-headed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Normanton Church, Rutland Water, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

Place: Cockington Lakes, Cockington, Devon
Date: 24 January 2022.

Place: Slapton Ley Nature Reserve, Devon
Date: 25 January 2022.

Place: Cardigan, Ceredigion
Date: 2 March 2022.

Place: St.Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 March 2022.

Place: Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset
Date: 13 March 2022.

Place: Hengistbury Head, Dorset
Date: 16 April 2022.

Place: Port Ellen, Islay, Scotland
Date: 8 June 2022.

Place: Kensington Gardens, London
Date: 26 October 2022.

[Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-headed gull]

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

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

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).

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).

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)

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).

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).

More Selected Canada Geese

Anseriformes

Place: Tower Hide, Catcott Lows, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.

Place: Bec’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 22 April 2022.

Place: RSPB Newport Wetlands, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 22 April 2022.

Place: Oronsay, Scotland
Date: 13 June 2022.

Place: Tower Hide, Westhay Moors, Somerset Levels
Date: 18 April 2023.

[Branta canadensis, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Canada goose]

The sound of the Canada goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Darrell-Lambert)

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

More Selected Song Thrushes

Passeriformes #2

Place: Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: 19 June 2018.

Place: Newborough, Anglesey
Date: 21 November 2018.

Place: Lews Castle grounds, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 10 June 2019.

Place: Camping Silvercraigs, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Date: 27 June 2019.

Place: Lathkill Dale, Over Haddon, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 28 May 2021.

Place: Lower Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 February 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

[Turdus philomelos, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Song thrush]

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

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