Place: Swansea Bay, South Wales
Date: 2 July 2022.
[Coragyps atratus, Family Cathartidae, Order Cathartiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black vulture]
The sound of the redshank (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Antonio Silveira)
Category Archives: Britain
Humboldt Penguin
Place: Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, Hampshire
Date: 7 August 2022.
[Spheniscus humboldti, Family Spheniscidae, Order Sphenisciformes, Wikipedia Entry: Humboldt penguin]
Stock Doves
Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 April 2022.
Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 April 2022.
Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.
Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 January 2023.
[Columba oenas, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Stock dove]
The sound of the stock dove (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)
Distribution and sightings of the stock dove across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Selected Herring Gulls, Part 2
Place: Oban, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Date: 24 August 2021.
Place: Llangrannog, Ceredigion
Date: 4 March 2022.
Place: Porthgain, Pembrokeshire
Date: 4 May 2022.
Place: Scalasaig, Colonsay, Scotland
Date: 14 June 2022.
Place: Tobermory, Mull, Scotland
Date: 19 June 2022.
Place: Rothesay Castle, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Date: 21 June 2022.
Place: Slea Head, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 7 September 2022.
Place: Doneen Pier, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 7 September 2022.
[Larus argentatus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: European herring gull]
The sound of the herring gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)
Distribution and sightings of the herring gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Selected Herring Gulls, Part 1
Place: West coast, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 18 May 2019.
Place: West Bay, Dorset
Date: 7 March 2020.
Place: Looe, Cornwall
Date: 7 September 2020.
Place: Falmouth, Cornwall
Date: 9 September 2020.
Place: Coast path near Moelfre, Anglesey
Date: 23 September 2020.
Place: Morfa Bychan, Llyn peninsula, Gwynedd
Date: 7 December 2020.
Place: Campsite, Lundy
Date: 29 June 2021.
Place: Caerfai Bay campsite, Pembrokeshire
Date: 15 July 2021.
[Larus argentatus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: European herring gull]
The sound of the herring gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)
Distribution and sightings of the herring gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Dabbling Mallards
Place: Derwent Reservoir, Peak District National Park
Date: 29 July 2020.
Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 September 2021.
Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 April 2022.
[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).
Selected Greylag Geese
Place: Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve, Blackpool, Lancashire
Date: 26 February 2018.
Place: River Thames near Streatley-on-Thames, Berkshire
Date: 30 April 2019.
Place: Ravenspoint, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 8 June 2019.
Place: Lake Windmere near Wray Castle, Lake District
Date: 7 October 2020.
Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 9 April 2021.
Place: Cragside Estate, Rothbury, Northumbria
Date: 9 June 2021.
Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.
Place: Cheddar Reservoir, Cheddar, Somerset
Date: 14 March 2022.
Place: Greylake RSPB, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.
[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).
Selected Mistle Thrushes, Part 2
Place: Coast Path between Horton and Oxwich, Gower
Date: 17 May 2022.
Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 29 May 2022.
Place: Muckross House, Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 8 September 2022.
Place: Llynn Brianne, Carmarthenshire
Date: 22 October 2022.
Place: Lower Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 January 2023.
[Turdus viscivorus, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mistle thrush]
The sound of the mistle thrush (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the mistle thrush across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Selected Mistle Thrushes, Part 1
Place: Lower Force, Upper Teesdale, North Pennines, County Durham
Date: 6 June 2021.
Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 November 2021.
Place: Top Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 17 February 2022.
Place: Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Date: 27 March 2022.
[Turdus viscivorus, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mistle thrush]
The sound of the mistle thrush (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the mistle thrush across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Skylarks
Place: Monk’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 April 2021.
Place: Holy Island, Northumbria
Date: 10 June 2021.
Place: Red Point, Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands
Date: 8 September 2021.
Place: White Strand, Iona, Scotland
Date: 16 June 2022.
[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).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 