Category Archives: Places

Ringed Plover

Charadriiformes

Place: Oxwich Bay, Gower Peninsula
Date: 14 August 2015.




[Charadrius hiaticula, Family Charadriidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common ringed plover]

The sound of the ringed plover (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

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

Young Black Redstart

Passeriformes #2

Place: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Date: 24 August 2014.





[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).

Calabrian Wren

Passeriformes #2

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).
Distribution and sightings of the wren across the British Isles

Bateleur

Accipitriformes

Place: Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Date: 27 August 2012.







[Terathopius ecaudatus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Bateleur]

The sound of the bateleur (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Fernand Deroussen)

Local Song Thrushes

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 19 January 2017.








Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2017.




Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Dates: 18 February 2017.



[Turdus philomelos, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Song thrush]

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

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

Red-crested Pochard

Anseriformes

Place: Kew Gardens, London
Date: 1 March 2017.




[Netta rufina, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-crested pochard]

The sound of the red-crested pochard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stanislas Wroza)

Distribution and sightings of the red-crested pochard across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Snipe

Charadriiformes

Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 October 2016.






Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 October 2016.






[Gallinago gallinago, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common snipe]

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

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

Pied Wagtail

Passeriformes #3

Place: River Taff near Black Weir, Cardiff
Dates: 7 November 2016.


Place: Charmouth, Dorset
Dates: 21 July 2016.








Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Dates: 3 November 2016.



[Motacilla alba yarrellii, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: White wagtail]

The sound of the pied wagtail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tomas Belka)

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

Little Grebe

Podicipediformes

Place: Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Dates: 11 October 2016.










Place: Cardiff Bay
Dates: 5 January 2017.



[Tachybaptus rufficollis, Family Podicipedidae, Order Podicipediformes, Wikipedia Entry: Little grebe]

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

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

Swainson’s Francolin

Galliformes

Place: Chobe National Park, Botswana
Dates: 24 August 2012.



[Pternistis swainsonii, Family Phasianidae, Order Galliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Swainson’s spurfowl]

The sound of Swainson’s francolin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)