Place: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Date: 6 December 2016.
Place: Natural History Museum, London
Date: 19 March 2019.
Place: Brighton Museum, Brighton
Date: 16 October 2019.
Place: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date: 18 February 2020.
Place: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date: 20 February 2020.
[Raphus cucullatus†, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Dodo]
Place: Priego de Cordoba, Andalucia
Date: 10 June 2015.
Place: Ogmore-by-Sea, South Wales
Date: 20 May 2018.
Place: Kellie Castle, Fife, Scotland
Date: 23 June 2018.
Place: Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
Date: 27 June 2018.
[Delichon urbicum, Family Hirundinidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common house martin]
The sound of the house martin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the house martin across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Loch Druidbeag, South Uist, Outer Hebrides
Date: 17 June 2019.
[Circus cyaneus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Hen harrier]
The sound of the hen harrier (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Romuald Mikusek)
Distribution and sightings of the hen harrier across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: London Zoo, London
Date: 9 October 2019.
Place: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date: 20 February 2020.
From the display in the National Museum of Scotland :
“Found only on Montserrat, this bird could be extinct by 2020. Volcanoes have been erupting there since 1995, destroying more than 60% of the island’s forest habitat.”
[Icterus oberi, Family Icteridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Montserrat oriole]
The sound of the Montserrat oriole (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist James Scriber Daley)
Place: Ponte de Lima, northern Portugal
Date: 27 August 2018.
Place: Barragem M. Carmona, eastern central Portugal
Date: 5 September 2018.
Place: Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 26 March 2019.
Place: Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 6 April 2019.
Place: Sandy Hills Bay, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Date: 26 June 2019.
[Chloris chloris, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European greenfinch]
The sound of the greenfinch (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sander Bot)
Distribution and sightings of the greenfinch across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Despite hearing the call of a corncrake on many occasions during my time in the Outer Hebrides, I never saw one. This is the closest I got – it can only have been a few yards away from the car, but still no cigar.
Place: Scurrival Point, Barra, Outer Hebrides
Date: 21 June 2019.
[Crex crex, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Corn crake]
The sound of the corncrake (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mathias Ritschard)
Distribution and sightings of the corncrake across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Tolsta, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 10 June 2019.
[Linaria flavirostris, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Twite]
The sound of the twite (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the twite across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Noss, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.
Place: Bressay, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.
Place: Mousa, Shetland Islands
Date: 11 June 2018.
Place: Lerwick Harbour, Shetland Mainland
Date: 17 June 2018.
[Somateria mollissima, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common eider]
The sound of the eider duck (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)
Distribution and sightings of the eider duck across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 11 April 2018.
Place: Noss, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.
Place: Saundersfoot harbour, Pembrokeshire
Date: 9 April 2019.
Place: Stack Rocks near Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire
Date: 10 April 2019.
Place: Newlyn, Cornwall
Date: 21 April 2019.
Place: Pen Cristin, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.
Place: Butt of Lewis, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 7 June 2019.
Place: Kallin, South Uist, Outer Hebrides
Date: 19 June 2019.
Place: Mewslade Bay, Gower
Date: 17 July 2019.
[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).
Place: Grutness, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.
Place: Bressay, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.
[Sterna hirundo, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common tern]
The sound of the common tern (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ross Ahmed)
Distribution and sightings of the common tern across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 