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).
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).
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).
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).
Place: Beaulieu, New Forest
Date: 3 May 2016.
Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 October 2016.
[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).
Place: River Taff near Cardiff Bay
Date: 4 February 2017.
Place: Arnside estuary, Cumbria
Date: 8 February 2017.
Place: Llanberis, Snowdonia
Date: 25 March 2016.
[Mergus merganser, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common merganser]
The sound of the goosander (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)
Distribution and sightings of the goosander across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 October 2016.
Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 29 October 2016.
Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 22 November 2016.
[Garrulus glandarius, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian jay]
The sound of the jay (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)
Distribution and sightings of the jay across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Oxwich Bay, Gower Peninsula
Date: 14 August 2015.
[Charadrius hiaticula, Family Charadriidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common ringed plover]
The sound of the ringed plover (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)
Distribution and sightings of the ringed plover across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 19 January 2017.
Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2017.
Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 18 February 2017.
[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).
Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 October 2016.
Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 October 2016.
[Gallinago gallinago, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common snipe]
The sound of the snipe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the snipe across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
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