Selected Little Grebes

Podicipediformes

Place: The Loons RSPB, Orkney Mainland
Date: 21 July 2017.

Place: Lydiard Park near Swindon, Wiltshire
Date: 4 December 2017.

Place: Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk
Date: 27 September 2021.

Place: Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve, Ceredigion
Date: 2 March 2022.

Place: Roonivoolin Trail, Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Date: 28 August 2022.

[Tachybaptus ruficollis, Family Podicipedidae, Order Podicipediformes, Wikipedia Entry: Little grebe]

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

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

Sand Martin Nests

Passeriformes #1

Place: The Machair, Iona, Scotland
Date: 16 June 2022.

Place: Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk
Date: 2 October 2022.

[Riparia riparia, Family Hirundinidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sand martin]

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

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

Northern Bald Ibis

Pelecaniformes

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

[Geronticus eremita, Family Threskiornithidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern bald ibis]

The sound of the northern bald ibis (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist José Carlos Sires)

Greenshank

Charadriiformes

Place: Orford Ness, Suffolk
Date: 2 October 2022.

[Tringa nebularia, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common greenshank]

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

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

Selected Dunlins

Charadriiformes

Place: Chesil Beach Centre, Portland, Dorset
Date: 8 March 2020.

Place: Whiteford Beach, Gower
Date: 15 June 2021.

Place: Caerfai Bay, St David’s, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 May 2022.

Place: Omey Island, County Galway, Ireland
Date: 3 September 2022.

[Calidris alpina, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Dunlin]

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

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

Grey Plover

Charadriiformes

Place: Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk
Date: 2 October 2022.

[Pluvialis squatarola, Family Pluvialidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey plover]

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

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

Selected Moorhens

Gruiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 4 April 2016.

Place: Wetland Centre Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Date: 24 July 2016.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 April 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 May 2019.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 July 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 8 April 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.

[Gallinula chloropus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common moorhen]

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

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

Selected Wigeons

Anseriformes

Place: Lymington Nature Reserve, New Forest
Date: 28 December 2018.

Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport
Date: 2 February 2019.

Place: West Viewing Platform, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.

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

[Mareca penelope, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian wigeon]

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

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

More Tufted Ducks

Anseriformes

Place: St. Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff
Date: 15 April 2021.

Place: Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Date: 1 October 2021.

Place: Hambleton Peninsula, Rutland Water, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

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

Place: Roonivoolin Trail, Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Date: 28 August 2022.

[Aythya fuligula, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Tufted duck]

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

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

Leucistic Blackbird

Passeriformes #2

Place: Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 20 November 2021.

[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).