Category Archives: England

Turkey Vulture

Cathartiformes

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



[Cathartes aura, Family Cathartidae, Order Cathartiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Turkey vulture]

The sound of the turkey vulture (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Charlie Vogt)

Blackbirds Doing Stuff

Passeriformes #2

Place: Rainforest biome of The Eden Project, Cornwall
Date: 20 September 2015.

Blackbird eating fruit



Place: Alhambra, Andalucia
Date: 9 June 2015.

Blackbird fighting a grasshopper



Place: Kew Gardens, London
Date: 28 June 2016.

Blackbird singing




[Turdus merula, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common blackbird]

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

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

Common Tern

Charadriiformes

Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 30 April 2016.





[Sterna hirundo, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common tern]

The sound of the common tern (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ross Ahmed)

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

Coot With Young

Gruiformes

Place: Leeds Castle, Kent
Date: 2 July 2016.




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








[Fulica atra, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian coot]

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

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

Whooper Swan

Anseriformes

Place: Leeds Castle, Kent
Date: 2 July 2016.





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



[Cygnus cygnus, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Whooper swan]

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

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

Black-headed Gull

Charadriiformes

Place: Beaulieu, New Forest
Date: 29 April 2016.




Place: Buckler’s Hard, New Forest
Date: 29 April 2016.



Place: Lymington, New Forest
Date: 1 May 2016.




[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).
Distribution and sightings of black-headed gull across the British Isles

Carrion Crow

Passeriformes #1

Place: Kew Gardens, London
Date: 28 June 2016.






Place: Beaulieu, New Forest
Date: 5 May 2016.



Place: Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
Date: 18 April 2016.


[Corvus corone, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Carrion crow]

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

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

Goldfinch

Passeriformes #3

Place: Beaulieu, New Forest
Date: 5 May 2016.







[Carduelis carduelis, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European goldfinch]

The sound of the goldfinch (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)

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

Whitethroat

Passeriformes #1

Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 30 April 2016.





[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).

Oystercatchers in the Sunset

Charadriiformes

Place: Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
Date: 31 October 2015.




[Haematopus ostralegus, Family Haematopodidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian oystercatcher]

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

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