Place: Grotta di Nettuno, Sardinia
Dates: 19 June 2017.
[Tachymarptis melba, Family Apodidae, Order Apodiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Alpine swift]
The sound of the alpine swift (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)
Distribution of the alpine swift across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Taranto, Puglia, Italy
Dates: 11 June 2016.
Place: Riverside Countrypark, Gillingham, Kent
Dates: 4 July 2016.
Place: Shapwick Moor, Somerset Levels
Dates: 11 October 2016.
[Falco tinnunculus, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kestrel]
The sound of the kestrel (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)
Distribution and sightings of the kestrel across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Taureana, Calabria
Date: 19 May 2016.
[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 and sightings of the wren across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Pompei, Italy
Dates: 17 May 2016.
Place: Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy
Dates: 15 June 2016.
[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).
Place: Alberobello, Italy
Dates: 12 June 2016.
[Hirundo rustica, Family Hirundinidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Barn swallow]
The sound of the barn swallow (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tomas Belka)
Distribution and sightings of the swallow across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
[a collared dove hitching a ride on the ferry all the way from Civitavecchia to Barcelona]
Place: Civitavecchia to Barcelona ferry
Dates: 16 June 2016.
[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).
Place: Zafferana Etnea, Sicily
Dates: 21 May 2016.
Place: Neapolis, Syracuse, Sicily
Dates: 24 May 2016.
Place: Canet de Mar, Catalunya
Dates: 17 June 2016.
Place: Calella de Palafrugell, Catalunya
Dates: 18 June 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: Navarrete, Spain
Dates: 11 May 2016.
Place: Avola, Sicily
Dates: 24/25 May 2016.
Place: Pozzallo, Sicily
Dates: 26 May 2016.
Place: Navarrete, Spain
Dates: 22 June 2016.
[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 and sightings of the goldfinch across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Place: Vendicari Nature Reserve, Sicily
Dates: 25 May 2016.
[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).
Place: Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy
Dates: 15 June 2016.
[Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common redstart]
The sound of the common redstart (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution of the common redstart across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 