Category Archives: Somerset Levels

Pheasant at the Bird Feeder

Galliformes

Place: Shapwick Moor, Somerset Levels
Date: 11 October 2016.


[Phasianus colchicus, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common pheasant]

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

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

Mute Swan

Anseriformes

Place: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Date: 26 October 2013.


Place: Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales
Date: 9 May 2015.


Place: Somerset Levels
Date: 10 March 2013.



Place: Salthouse, Norfolk
Date: 29 August 2015.


Place: Audley End House, Saffron Walden, Essex
Date: 27 October 2013.


[Cygnus olor, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mute swan]

The sound of the mute swan (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Fraser Simpson)

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