Category Archives: Places

Hooded Crow

Passeriformes #1

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).

My Pet Barn Swallows

Passeriformes #1

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

Green Wood Hoopoe

Bucerotiformes

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


[Phoeniculus purpureus, Family Phoeniculidae, Order Bucerotiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Green wood hoopoe]

The sound of the green wood hoopoe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tim Cockcroft)

Magpies Sheltering from the Rain

Passeriformes #1

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 26 December 2014.


Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Dates: 1 August 2016.






[Pica pica, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian magpie]

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

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

House Sparrows

Passeriformes #3

Place: Amroth, Pembrokeshire
Dates: 18 April 2016.




Place: Lundy Island
Dates: 13 August 2016.





Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dates: 19 April 2014.




[Passer domesticus, Family Passeridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: House sparrow]

The sound of the house sparrow (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jarek Matusiak)

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

Heronry

Pelecaniformes

Place: Forest Farm between Asda car park and Coryton railway cutting
Dates: 19 January 2017.








Place: Swell Wood RSPB nature reserve, Somerset
Dates: 25 May 2013.




[Ardea cinerea, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey heron]

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

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

Burchell’s Starling

Passeriformes #2

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


Place: Maun, Botswana
Dates: 31 August 2012.



[Lamprotornis australis, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Burchell’s starling]

The sound of Burchell’s starling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tom Wulf)

Shoveler

Anseriformes

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




[Anas clypeata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern shoveler]

The sound of the shoveler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Driver)

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

Blue Waxbill and Jameson’s Firefinch

Passeriformes #3

Place: Victoria Falls, Zambia
Dates: 23 August 2012.




[Uraeginthus angolensis, Family Estrildidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Blue waxbill]

The sound of the blue waxbill (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Gabriel A. Jamie)

[Lagonosticta rhodopareia, Family Estrildidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Jameson’s firefinch]

The sound of the Jameson’s firefinch (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Derek Solomon)