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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).