Category Archives: Italy

Selected Starlings

Passeriformes #2

Place: Sabaudia, Italy
Date: 15 June 2016.


Place: Ludlow, Shropshire
Date: 26 October 2017.



Place: North Promenade, Cleveleys, Lancashire
Date: 26 February 2018.


Place: Papil Church, Shetland Mainland
Date: 13 June 2018.


Place: Porthdinllaen, Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd
Date: 19 November 2018.



Place: Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Date: 30 December 2019.






[Sturnus vulgaris, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common starling]

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

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

More Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Sartène, Corsica
Date: 4 June 2017.



Place: Torre del Porticciolo, Sardinia
Date: 19 June 2017.


Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 6 February 2018.



Place: Housesteads Roman Fort, Northumbria
Date: 30 June 2018.





Place: Olympia Archeological Site, Greece
Date: 12 September 2019.




Place: Looe, Cornwall
Date: 7 September 2020.



Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2020.


[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).
Distribution and sightings of the chaffinch across the British Isles

Selected Black-headed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Ring canal around Bruges, Belgium
Date: 2 December 2018.


Place: Village Bay, Hirta, St.Kilda
Date: 9 June 2019.


Place: Venice, Italy
Date: 20 August 2019.



Place: Brindisi, Italy
Date: 18 September 2019.


Place: River Taff upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 October 2020.





Place: River Taff upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 February 2021.



Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 March 2021.



Place: Overstrand, Norfolk
Date: 25 September 2021.



[Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-headed gull]

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

Distribution and sightings of the black-headed gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the black-headed gull across the British Isles

Selected Wood Pigeons

Columbiformes

Place: Lymington, New Forest
Date: 1 May 2016.


Place: Vendicari Nature Reserve, Sicily
Date: 25 May 2016.



Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 August 2018.


Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 24 July 2019.


Place: Williton, Somerset
Date: 19 July 2021.




Place: Oakham, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.



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


Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 December 2021.


Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.


Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 29 May 2022.



[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).
Distribution and sightings of the wood pigeon across the British Isles

Hooded Crows from Sardinia

Passeriformes #1

Place: Torre Salinas, Sardinia
Date: 12 June 2017.



Place: Torre del Porticciolo, Sardinia
Date: 19 June 2017.




Place: Alghero, Sardinia
Date: 19 June 2017.


Place: Torre del Porticciolo, Sardinia
Date: 19 June 2017.



Place: Isola Asinara, Sardinia
Date: 22 June 2017.



[Corvus cornix, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Hooded crow]

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

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

Yellow-legged Gull

Charadriiformes

Place: Nora, Sardinia
Date: 14 June 2017.



Place: Camping Fusina, Venice, Italy
Date: 20 August 2019.



Place: Monemvasia, Greece
Date: 6 September 2019.



Place: Brindisi, Italy
Date: 18 September 2019.




[Larus michahellis, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Yellow-legged gull]

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

Distribution of the yellow-legged gull across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution of the yellow-legged gull across the British Isles

Black Redstart

Passeriformes #2

Place: Pescasseroli, Abruzzo National Park, Italy
Date: 21 Septemer 2019.








Place: Santa Cruz de la Seros, Aragon, Spain
Date: 24 Septemer 2019.





[Phoenicurus ochruros, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black redstart]

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

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

Crag Martin

Passeriformes #1

Place: Pescasseroli, Abruzzo National Park, Italy
Date: 21 September 2019.








[Ptyonoprogne rupestris, Family Hirundinidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian crag martin]

The sound of the crag martin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Gianluca Congi)

Jays from Corsica and Sardinia

Passeriformes #1

Place: Porto, Corsica
Date: 28 May 2017.





Place: Filitosa, Corsica
Date: 1 June 2017.




Place: Monte Ortobene, Sardinia
Date: 10 June 2017.





Place: Is Arenas, Sardinia
Date: 17 June 2017.


[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).
Distribution and sightings of the jay across the British Isles

Swifts in Flight

Apodiformes

Place: Alberobello, Italy
Date: 12 June 2016.




Place: Nafplio, Greece
Date: 31 August 2019.





Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 3 July 2020.



[Apus apus, Family Apodidae, Order Apodiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common swift]

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

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