Category Archives: Britain

Caribbean Flamingo

Phoenicopteriformes

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





[Phoenicopterus ruber, Family Phoenicopteridae, Order Phoenicopteriformes, Wikipedia Entry: American flamingo]

The sound of the Caribbean flamingo (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Catriona Leven)

More Chiffchaffs

Passeriformes #2

Place: path between Craig-y-Dinas and Swgd Yr Eira waterfall, Vale of Neath
Date: 9 April 2017.



[Phylloscopus collybita, Family Phylloscopidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chiffchaff]

Place: Llyn Padarn, Llanberis, Snowdonia
Date: 6 April 2017.




Place: Dale near St. Anne’s Head, Pembrokeshire
Date: 18 April 2017.



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

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

Common Redpoll

Passeriformes #3

Place: Llyn Padarn, Llanberis, Snowdonia
Date: 6 April 2017.





[Acanthis flammea, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common redpoll]

The sound of the common redpoll (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Krzysztof Deoniziak)

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

Welsh Avocets

Charadriiformes

Place: Monk’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 2 April 2017.










[Recurvirostra avosetta, Family Recurvirostridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Pied avocet]

The sound of the avocet (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist José Carlos Sires)

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

Wood Pigeon Building a Nest

Columbiformes

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







Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 31 March 2017.

[Columba palumbus, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common wood pigeon]

The sound of the wood pigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jelmer Poelstra)

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

Teal

Anseriformes

Place: Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Date: 9 February 2017.











[Anas crecca, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian teal]

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

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

Black Kite

Accipitriformes

Place: Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly
Date: 30 July 2016.




[Milvus migrans, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black kite]

The sound of the black kite (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jacques Prevost)

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

Local Cormorants

Suliformes

Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Cardiff
Date: 21 October 2016.





Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Cardiff
Date: 14 March 2017.




Place: River Taff near Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 25 March 2017.





[Phalacrocorax carbo, Family Phalacrocoracidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great cormorant]

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

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

Marabou Stork

Ciconiiformes

Place: Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, Norfolk
Date: 3 September 2015.



[Leptoptilos crumenifer, Family Ciconiidae, Order Ciconiiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Marabou stork]

The sound of the marabou stork (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Matheve)

Male Gadwall / Female Mallard

Anseriformes

Place: Arundel, West Sussex
Date: 18 March 2017.




[Mareca strepera, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Gadwall]

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

[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 gadwall across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
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