Category Archives: Britain

Plum-throated Cotinga (Stuffed Specimen)

Passeriformes #1

Place: Cragside House, Rothbury, Northumbria
Date: 9 June 2021.


[Cotinga maynana, Family Cotingidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Plum-throated cotinga]

The sound of the plum-throated cotinga (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Coopmans)

Choughs from Pembrokeshire, Part 2

Passeriformes #1

Place: St. Govan’s Head, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 July 2020.









Place: Coast path south of St. Justinian, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 September 2020.




Place: Porth Clais, Pembrokeshire
Date: 20 June 2021.


Place: Deer Park, Martin’s Haven, Pembrokeshire
Date: 22 June 2021.


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



[Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-billed chough]

The sound of the chough (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Olivier Grosselet)

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

Choughs from Pembrokeshire, Part 1

Passeriformes #1

Place: Deer Park, Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire
Date: 16 July 2018.




Place: North Meadows, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.


Place: Foot of Foel Fawr, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.


Place: Porthlysgi, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 July 2019.


Place: St. Justinian’s, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 July 2019.






Place: St. Non’s, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 July 2019.



[Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-billed chough]

The sound of the chough (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Olivier Grosselet)

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

More Jays from Forest Farm

Passeriformes #1

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 December 2019.





Place: Southern Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 March 2020.



Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 1 April 2020.



Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2020.



Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 November 2020.



Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 November 2020.



Place: Southern Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 December 2021.



[Garrulus glandarius, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian jay]

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

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

Young Starling

Passeriformes #2

Place: Muchelney Abbey, Somerset
Date: 25 May 2013.

Place: Kenfig Pool near Port Talbot
Date: 1 June 2013.


Place: Seahouses, Northumbria
Date: 28 June 2018.


Place: Seahouses, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.









Place: Salthouse, Norfolk
Date: 27 September 2021.





[Sturnus vulgaris, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common starling]

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

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

Brahminy Starling

Passeriformes #2

Place: Waddesdon Manor aviaries, Buckinghamshire
Date: 1 May 2019.




[Sturnia pagodarum, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Brahminy starling]

The sound of the Brahminy starling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sreekumar Chirukandoth)

Tundra Bean Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 April 2021.






[Anser serrirostris, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Tundra bean goose]

The sound of the tundra bean goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mark Newsome)

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

Skylark on Lundy

Passeriformes #1

Place: Main Path North of 3/4 Wall, Lundy
Date: 30 June 2021.


Place: Main Path North of 3/4 Wall, Lundy
Date: 1 July 2021.








[Alauda arvensis, Family Alaudidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian skylark]

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

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

Blackcaps

Passeriformes #1

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 9 April 2021.





Place: Howardian Local Nature Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 12 April 2021.





Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 10 May 2021.




[Sylvia atricapilla, Family Sylviidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian blackcap]

The sound of the blackcap (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mathias Ritschard)

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