Selected Magpies

Passeriformes #1

Place: Scarborough, Yorkshire
Date: 1 November 2015.

Place: Brandon Hill near Cabot Tower, Bristol
Date: 10 April 2016.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2021.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 October 2022.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 22 January 2023.

Place: Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2023.

[Pica pica, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian magpie]

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

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

Northern Hawk Owl

Strigiformes

Place: Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 May 2022.

[Surnia ulula, Family Strigidae, Order Strigiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern hawk-owl]

The sound of the northern hawk owl (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Lars Edenius)

Sparrowhawk at Somerset Levels

Accipitriformes

Place: Viewing Platform #2, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.

[Accipiter nisus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian sparrowhawk]

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

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

Pallas’s Sandgrouse (Stuffed Specimen)

Pterocliformes

Place: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
Date: 22 March 2023.

[Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Family Pteroclidae, Order Pterocliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Pallas’s sandgrouse]

The sound of Pallas’s sandgrouse (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stanislas Wroza)

Snipe Back at Forest Farm

Charadriiformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.

[Gallinago gallinago, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common snipe]

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

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

Great Tits

Passeriformes #1

Place: Lower Town of Mystras, Laconia, Greece
Date: 4 September 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2020.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.

Place: Packwood House, Warwickshire
Date: 28 March 2022.

Place: Entrance to Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 April 2022.

Place: RSPB Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 19 April 2023.

Place: Viewing Platform #1, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 20 April 2023.

[Parus major, Family Paridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great tit]

The sound of the great tit (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stein Ø. Nilsen)

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

Selected Wheatears, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: Levant Mine, Trewellard, Cornwall
Date: 20 April 2019.

Place: Tyrins, Greece
Date: 1 September 2019.

Place: Stiperstones National Nature Reserve, Shropshire
Date: 11 August 2020.

Place: Hadrian’s Wall near Sycamore Gap, Northumbria
Date: 12 June 2021.

Place: Coast Path between St. Justinians and Porthclais, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 May 2022.

Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 5 July 2022.

Place: Non’s Chapel, St.David, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 August 2022.

Place: Downpatrick Head, County Mayo, Ireland
Date: 1 September 2022.

Place: Coast path between St. Justinians and Porthlysgi Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 26 April 2023.

[Oenanthe oenanthe, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern wheatear]

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

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

Selected Wheatears, Part 1

Passeriformes #2

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

Place: Carn Llundain, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.

Place: Llanrhidian Salt Marshes, Gower
Date: 9 August 2018.

Place: Southend, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.

Place: North-west corner of Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 20 May 2019.

Place: Rhossili, Gower
Date: 16 July 2019.

Place: Coast path between Abereiddi and Porthgain
Date: 3 September 2020.

Place: Coast path near Moelfre, Anglesey
Date: 23 September 2020.

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

[Oenanthe oenanthe, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern wheatear]

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

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

More Selected Canada Geese

Anseriformes

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

Place: Bec’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 22 April 2022.

Place: RSPB Newport Wetlands, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 22 April 2022.

Place: Oronsay, Scotland
Date: 13 June 2022.

Place: Tower Hide, Westhay Moors, Somerset Levels
Date: 18 April 2023.

[Branta canadensis, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Canada goose]

The sound of the Canada goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Darrell-Lambert)

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

Whooper Swan in Cardiff Bay

Anseriformes

Place: Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
Date: 12 November 2022.

[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).