Selected Song Thrushes

Passeriformes #2

Place: Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
Date: 4 March 2016.

Place: Colby Woodland Garden, Pembrokeshire
Date: 17 April 2016.

Place: Port Erroll, Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire
Date: 16 July 2017.

Place: Croft Castle, Herefordshire
Date: 25 October 2017.

Place: Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross, Scotland
Date: 6 June 2018.

[Turdus philomelos, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Song thrush]

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

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

Sparrowhawk in the Road

Accipitriformes

Place: Hasguard Cross near Little Haven, Pembrokeshire
Date: 22 June 2021.

[Accipiter nisus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian sparrowhawk]

The sound of the sparrowhawk (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

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

More Greenfinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
Date: 23 October 2021.

Place: Lyndon Wildlife Trust, Rutland Water, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

Place: Sharkham Point, Brixham, Devon
Date: 26 January 2022.

[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).

More Teals

Anseriformes

Place: Calshot, New Forest
Date: 27 December 2020.

Place: Monk’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 April 2021.

Place: Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
Date: 24 September 2021.

Place: Northern Wetlands, Parc Slip Nature Reserve, Aberkenfig, Bridgend
Date: 11 November 2021.

Place: Lake near Screens, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 21 February 2022.

Place: Lake near Screens, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 24 February 2022.

Place: Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve, Ceredigion
Date: 2 March 2022.

[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).

Great White Egrets

Pelecaniformes

Place: Oxbow Lake near Dinefwr Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire
Date: 2 May 2021.

Place: Hambleton Peninsula, Rutland Water, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 22 November 2021.

[Ardea alba, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great egret]

The sound of the great white egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jerome Fischer)

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

Mallard Clean and Polish

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 March 2020.

Place: Stourhead, Wiltshire
Date: 17 November 2021.

Place: Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve, Ceredigion
Date: 2 March 2022.

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

Selected Canada Geese

Anseriformes

Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 11 January 2017.

Place: Newport Wetlands, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 2 April 2017.

Place: Llandegfedd reservoir, Monmouthshire
Date: 27 April 2017.

Place: Welsh Wildlife Centre, Aberteifi, Ceredigion
Date: 31 March 2018.

Place: Lake Buttermere, Lake District
Date: 8 October 2020.

Place: Wallington Estate, Cambo, Northumbria
Date: 9 June 2021.

[Branta canadensis, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Canada goose]

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

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

Kingfishers from Elsewhere

Coraciiformes

Place: Lymington Nature Reserve, New Forest
Date: 28 December 2018.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 27 September 2019.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 4 August 2020.

Place: Roath Park Lake, Cardiff
Date: 10 July 2021.

Place: Normanton Church, Rutland Water, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

[Alcedo atthis, Family Alcedinidae, Order Coraciiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kingfisher]

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

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

Selected Collared Doves

Columbiformes

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 28 May 2020.

Place: Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 11 October 2020.

Place: Melin Tregwynt, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 June 2021.

[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).

Selected Pheasants

Galliformes

Place: Cemlyn, Anglesey, North Wales
Date: 22 September 2020.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 9 April 2021.

Place: Gresham Hall, Norfolk
Date: 25 September 2021.

Place: Gresham Hall, Norfolk
Date: 28 September 2021.

Place: Powis Castle, Powys, Mid Wales
Date: 7 October 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 25 December 2021.

[Phasianus colchicus, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common pheasant]

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

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