More Chiffchaffs

Passeriformes #2

Place: path between Craig-y-Dinas and Swgd Yr Eira waterfall, Vale of Neath
Date: 9 April 2017.

[Phylloscopus collybita, Family Phylloscopidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chiffchaff]

Place: Llyn Padarn, Llanberis, Snowdonia
Date: 6 April 2017.

Place: Dale near St. Anne’s Head, Pembrokeshire
Date: 18 April 2017.

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

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

African Spoonbill

Pelecaniformes

Place: Chobe National Park, Botswana
Date: 25 August 2012.

Place: Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Date: 30 August 2012.

[Platalea alba, Family Threskiornithidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: African spoonbill]

The sound of the African spoonbill (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Lynette Rudman)

Common Redpoll

Passeriformes #3

Place: Llyn Padarn, Llanberis, Snowdonia
Date: 6 April 2017.

[Acanthis flammea, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common redpoll]

The sound of the common redpoll (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Krzysztof Deoniziak)

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

Welsh Avocets

Charadriiformes

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).

Wood Pigeon Building a Nest

Columbiformes

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).

Teal

Anseriformes

Place: Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Date: 9 February 2017.

[Anas crecca, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian teal]

The sound of the teal (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Farrow)

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

Black Kite

Accipitriformes

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).

Collared Inca

Apodiformes

Place: Guango hummingbird sanctuary, Ecuador
Date: 6 August 2010.

[Coeligena torquata, Family Trochilidae, Order Apodiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Collared inca]

The sound of the collared inca (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mitch Lysinger)

Local Cormorants

Suliformes

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).

Tropical Kingbird

Passeriformes #1

Place: Morretes, Brazil
Date: 25 April 2014.

[Tyrannus melancholicus, Family Tyrannidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Tropical kingbird]

The sound of the tropical kingbird (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Fernando Igor de Godoy)