Forest Farm Moorhen with Chicks

Gruiformes

Place: Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 April 2018.

Place: Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 April 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 May 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 23 July 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 August 2018.

[Gallinula chloropus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common moorhen]

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

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

Redwing

Passeriformes #2

Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 19 January 2018.

Place: Tongwynlais Football Club Playing Fields, Cardiff
Date: 5 March 2018.

Place: Path between Sidford and Sidmouth, Devon
Date: 13 March 2018.

[Turdus iliacus, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Redwing]

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

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

Great Skua Showing Displacement Behaviour

Charadriiformes

Place: Hermaness, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 16 June 2018.

Having failed to frighten me away from its nesting area, this great skua has chosen instead to try and vent its aggression on a poor lamb and its mother.

[Stercorarius skua, Family Stercorariidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great skua]

The sound of the great skua (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Dougie Preston)

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

Red-breasted Mergansers from Shetland

Anseriformes

Place: St. Ninian’s Isle, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.

Place: Uyeasound, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 17 June 2018.

Place: Sands of Sound, Lerwick, Shetland Mainland
Date: 17 June 2018.

[Mergus serrator, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-breasted merganser]

The sound of the red-breasted merganser (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)

Distribution and sightings of the red-breasted merganser across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Yellow Wagtail

Passeriformes #3

Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 3 August 2018.

[Motacilla flava flavissima, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Western yellow wagtail]

The sound of the yellow wagtail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marc Schweitzer)

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

Local Long-tailed Tits

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 28 January 2017.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 30 January 2017.

Place: Front Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 5 January 2018.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 12 July 2018.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 23 July 2018.

[Aegithalos caudatus, Family Aegithalidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Long-tailed tit]

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

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

Puffling

Charadriiformes

Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.

[Fratercula arctica, Family Alcidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Atlantic puffin]

The sound of the puffin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Petter Kristoffersen)

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

Sandwich Terns

Charadriiformes

Place: Inner Farne, Farne Islands, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.

[Thalasseus sandvicensis, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sandwich tern]

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

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

Juvenile Goldcrest

Passeriformes #2

Place: Hillier Gardens near Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 26 July 2018.

[Regulus regulus, Family Regulidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Goldcrest]

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

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

Water Rail

Gruiformes

Place: Bird hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 18 December 2017.

[Rallus aquaticus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Water rail]

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

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