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).

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).

Local Buzzards

Accipitriformes

Place: River Taff near M4, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 February 2018.

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

[Buteo buteo, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common buzzard]

The sound of the buzzard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sander Bot)

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

Local Mistle Thrush

Passeriformes #2

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 12 January 2018.

Place: Forest Farm near Melingruffydd Feeder, Cardiff
Date: 31 January 2018.

[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).

Local Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Warden Centre Bird Hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 29 November 2016.

Place: Front Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 25 January 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 February 2018.

[Fringilla coelebs, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chaffinch]

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

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

Green Woodpecker Scoffing Ants

Piciformes

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 20 August 2017.

[Picus viridis, Family Picidae, Order Piciformes, Wikipedia Entry: European green woodpecker]

The sound of the green woodpecker (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Olivier Grosselet)

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

Welsh Collared Doves

Columbiformes

Place: Port Eynon, Gower
Dates: 14 September 2017.

Place: Sea wall near Goldcliff, east of Newport, Gwent
Dates: 2 April 2017.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 4 November 2017.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 5 September 2017.

[Streptopelia decaocto, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian collared dove]

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

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

Blackbird

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 14 April 2016.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 30 April 2017.

Place: Ilam Park, Staffordshire
Dates: 6 December 2017.

[Turdus merula, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common blackbird]

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

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

Various Jackdaws

Passeriformes #1

Place: Lynmouth, Devon
Dates: 16 February 2013.

Place: Segesta, Sicily
Dates: 2 June 2016.

Place: Wadebridge, Cornwall
Dates: 28 August 2016.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 16 January 2017.

[Coloeus monedula, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Western jackdaw]

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

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

More British Goldfinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 24 June 2016.

Place: Afon Mawddach near Dolgellau, Gwynedd
Dates: 19 January 2014.

Place: Eden Project, Cornwall
Dates: 25 April 2015.

Place: Cuckmere Haven, Sussex
Dates: 14 September 2016.

Place: Caerphilly Commons, Caerphilly
Dates: 6 May 2017.

Place: Shapwick Moor, Somerset Levels
Dates: 11 October 2016.

[Carduelis carduelis, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European goldfinch]

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

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