Category Archives: Places

Little Grebe

Podicipediformes

Place: Newport Wetlands, South Wales
Date: 3 November 2016.








Place: Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 12 November 2016.



[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).

Dipper

Passeriformes #2

Place: Path between Lynmouth to Watersmeet
Date: 1 September 2016.





Place: River Taff near Black Weir, Cardiff
Date: 19 October 2016.






Place: River Taff near Llandaff, Cardiff
Date: 5 November 2016.








[Cinclus cinclus, Family Cinclidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: White-throated dipper]

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

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

Great Blue Heron

Pelecaniformes

Place: Bartolome, Galapagos
Date: 16 August 2010.


[Ardea herodias, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great blue heron]

The sound of the great blue heron (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mike Nelson)

Distribution of the great blue heron across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Lesser Blue-eared Starling

Passeriformes #2

Place: Chobe National Park, Botswana
Date: 25/26 August 2012.



[Lamprotornis chloropterus, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Lesser blue-eared starling]

The sound of the lesser blue-eared starling (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)

Young Greater Flamingoes

Phoenicopteriformes

Place: Pantano Longarini, Sicily
Date: 26 May 2016.




[Phoenicopterus roseus, Family Phoenicopteridae, Order Phoenicopteriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Greater flamingo]

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

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

Magnificent Frigatebird

Suliformes

Place: Angra dos Reis, Brazil
Date: 28 April 2014.



Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: 3 May 2014.


[Fregata magnificens, Family Fregatidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Magnificent frigatebird]

The sound of the black-winged stilt (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Richard C. Hoyer)

Sicilian Black-winged Stilts

Charadriiformes

Place: Pantano Longarini, Sicily
Date: 26 May 2016.








Place: Saline Ciane, Syracuse, Sicily
Date: 24 May 2016.


[Himantopus himantopus, Family Recurvirostridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-winged stilt]

The sound of the black-winged stilt (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Giuseppe Speranza)

Distribution of the black-winged stilt across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Bullfinch

Passeriformes #3

Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 October 2016.








[Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian bullfinch]

The sound of the bullfinch (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

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

Andean Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Wetland Centre Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Date: 24 July 2016.




[Chloephaga melanoptera, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Andean goose]

The sound of the Andean goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)

Black-headed Oriole

Passeriformes #1

Place: Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Date: 29 August 2012.


[Oriolus larvatus, Family Oriolidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-headed oriole]

The sound of the black-headed oriole (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tim Cockcroft)