Category Archives: Britain

Great Grey Owl

Strigiformes

Place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Date: 7 April 2012.





[Strix nebulosa, Family Strigidae, Order Strigiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great grey owl]

The sound of the great grey owl (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jelmer Poelstra)

Shelduck

Anseriformes

Place: Titchwell Marshes, Norfolk
Date: 2 September 2015.




[Tadorna tadorna, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Shelduck]

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

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

More Turnstones

Charadriiformes

Place: Mevagissey harbour, Cornwall
Date: 27 October 2012.




Place: Scarborough, Yorkshire
Date: 24 October 2010.


Place: Porthcawl, South Wales
Date: 2 January 2016.






[Arenaria interpres, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Turnstone]

The sound of the turnstone (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Herman van der Meer)

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

Common Stonechat

Passeriformes #2

Place: Ogmore-by-Sea, South Wales
Date: 9 March 2014.


[Saxicola torquata, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: African stonechat]

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

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

Common Buzzard

Accipitriformes

Place: Wilderhope Manor, Shropshire
Date: 15 January 2016.





Place: Wilderhope Manor, Shropshire
Date: 16 January 2016.


Place: Burghclere, Hampshire
Date: 2 October 2015.


[Buteo buteo, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common buzzard]

The sound of the common buzzard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sander Bot)

Distribution and sightings of the common buzzard 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).

Dunlin

Charadriiformes

Place: Bridlington, Yorkshire
Date: 2 November 2015.




[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).

Northern Bald Ibis

Pelecaniformes

Place: Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, Norfolk
Date: 3 September 2015.


[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)

White-naped Crane

Gruiformes

Place: Pensthorpe Nasture Reserve, Norfolk
Date: 3 September 2015.



[Antigone vipio, Family Gruidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: White-naped crane]

The sound of the white-naped crane (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ross Gallardy)

Teal

Anseriformes

Place: Brownsea Island, Dorset
Date: 10 October 2015.






[Anas crecca, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian teal]

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

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