Category Archives: Britain

Water Rail

Gruiformes

Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 26 October 2016.


[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).

Male Bullfinch

Passeriformes #3

Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 5 November 2016.





Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 11 November 2016.







Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 30 November 2016.




Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 15 August 2017.






[Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian bullfinch]

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

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

Harris’s Hawk

Accipitriformes

Place: Leeds Castle, Kent
Dates: 4 July 2016.




[Parabuteo unicinctus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Harris’s hawk]

The sound of Harris’s hawk (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Manuel Grosselet)

Distribution and sightngs of Harris’s hawk across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Nene Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Wetland Centre Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Dates: 24 July 2016.




[Branta sandvicensis, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Nene (bird)]

The sound of the Nene goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Bobby Wilcox)

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

Grey Wagtail

Passeriformes #3

Place: Potato Wharf, Manchester
Dates: 5 February 2017.







Place: Footpath from Lynmouth to Watersmeet, Devon
Dates: 1 September 2016.


Place: River Taff near Black Weir, Cardiff
Dates: 7 November 2016.


Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 30 October 2017.



Place: River Taff near Black Weir, Cardiff
Dates: 19 October 2016.



[Motacilla cinerea, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey wagtail]

The sound of the grey wagtail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Dawid Jablonski)

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

More Curlews

Charadriiformes

Place: Laugharne Estuary, Carmarthenshire
Dates: 23 September 2016.







Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Dates: 11 January 2017.


Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Dates: 8 November 2017.




Place: Arnside estuary, Cumbria
Dates: 8 February 2017.




[Numenius arquata, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian curlew]

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

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

Mandarin Duck in Eclipse Plumage

Anseriformes

Place: London Wetlands WWT, London
Dates: 9 July 2017.






[Aix galericulata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mandarin duck]

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

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

Forest Farm Robins

Passeriformes #2

Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 21 October 2016.



Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 3 October 2016.


Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 15 August 2017.




[Erithacus rubecula, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European robin]

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

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

Orkney Puffins No.2

Charadriiformes

Place: Stanger Head, Westray, Orkney Islands
Dates: 23 July 2017.






















Place: Noup Cliffs, Westray, Orkney Islands
Dates: 23 July 2017.


[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).