Skokholm Wheatears

Passeriformes #2

Place: Crab Bay, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: North Gully, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: The Neck, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: The Bluffs, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.

[Oenanthe oenanthe, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern wheatear]

The sound of the wheatear (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Herman van Oosten)

Distribution of the wheatear across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

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Various Skylark

Passeriformes #1

Place: North Pond, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: Gower Peninsula near Arthur’s Stone
Date: 10 May 2018.

Place: Hermaness, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 16 June 2018.

[Alauda arvensis, Family Alaudidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian skylark]

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

Distribution of the skylark across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Skokholm Great Black-backed Gull

Charadriiformes

Place: South Haven, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: North Plain near farm, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: Winter Pond, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: Crab Bay, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.

[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 of the great black-backed gull across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Skokholm Wrens

Passeriformes #2

Place: Path between farm and South Haven, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: Farm, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: South Haven, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: Spy Rock, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: Mad Bay, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: Farm, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

[Nannus troglodytes, Family Troglodytidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian wren]

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

Distribution of the wren across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Various Goldfinch

Passeriformes #2

Place: Albert Dock, Liverpool
Date: 16 April 2018.

Place: St.Nicholas Church Gardens, Liverpool
Date: 18 April 2018.

Place: Farm building, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.

Place: Slebech Hall, Pembrokeshire
Date: 4 May 2018.

Place: Stirling, Scotland
Date: 5 June 2018.

Place: Haltwhistle campsite , Northumbria
Date: 30 June 2018.

Place: Caerfai Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 18 July 2018.

[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 of the goldfinch across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Skokholm / Skomer Meadow Pipits

Passeriformes #2

Place: Mad Bay, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: Farm, Skokholm
Date: 1-2 May 2018.

Place: The Well, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.

Place: South Stream Valley, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.

[Anthus pratensis, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Meadow pipit]

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

Distribution of the meadow pipit across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Skokholm Shags

Suliformes

Place: Little Bay, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: The Stack, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.

Place: South Haven, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: Crab Bay, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: Little Bay, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.

[Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Family Phalacrocoracidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: European shag]

The sound of the shag (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Alex Lees)

Distribution of the shag across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).