Category Archives: Britain

Greylag Geese at Fishlake Meadows

Anseriformes

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 23 October 2018.




Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 23 October 2018.




[Anser anser, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Greylag goose]

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

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

Fieldfares at Goldcliff Lagoons

Passeriformes #2

Place: Entrance to Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport
Date: 10 November 2020.


















[Turdus pilaris, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Fieldfare]

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

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

Wrens from Bardsey Island

Passeriformes #2

Place: Plas Bach, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.


Place: Plas Bach, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 21 May 2019.


Place: Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 22 May 2019.


[Nannus troglodytes, Family Troglodytidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian wren]

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

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

Emerald Starling

Passeriformes #2

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





[Lamprotornis iris, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Emerald starling]

The sound of the emerald starling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Frank Lambert)

Juvenile Pied Wagtails

Passeriformes #3

Place: Tolquhon Castle, Aberdeenshire
Date: 16 July 2017.




Place: Portsoy, Aberdeenshire
Date: 16 July 2017.



Place: Campsite near Woolacombe, Devon
Date: 1 September 2016.





Place: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Date: 21 June 2018.





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



[Motacilla alba yarrellii, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: White wagtail]

The sound of the pied wagtail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tomas Belka)

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

Kestrel at Fishlake Meadows

Falconiformes

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 4 August 2020.











Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 11 October 2020.


[Falco tinnunculus, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kestrel]

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

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

More Great Black-backed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Fortuneswell, Portland, Dorset
Date: 6 March 2020.



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




[Larus marinus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great black-backed gull]

The sound of the great black-backed gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

Distribution and sightings of the great black-backed gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the great black-backed gull across the British Isles

Black-naped Fruit Dove

Columbiformes

Place: London Zoo, London
Date: 9 October 2019.



[Ptilinopus melanospilus, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-naped fruit dove]

The sound of the black-naped fruit dove (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ding Li Yong)

Gagging Mallard

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2020.

This mallard behaved in a very strange fashion (see video), as if it had something stuck in its throat and couldn’t dislodge it.


[Anas platyrhynchos, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mallard]

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

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