Category Archives: Places

Tree Sparrow

Passeriformes #3

Place: Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire coast
Date: 3 November 2015.


[Passer montanus, Family Passeridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian tree sparrow]

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

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

Hooded Vulture

Accipitriformes

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





[Necrosyrtes monachus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Hooded vulture]

The sound of the hooded vulture (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Andrew Spencer)

Moorhen with Chicks

Gruiformes

Place: Arundel, West Sussex
Date: 6 May 2012.



[Gallinula chloropus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common moorhen]

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

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

Kestrel

Falconiformes

Place: Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
Date: 4 November 2015.



Place: Amroth beach, West Wales
Date: 20 October 2012.


Place: Ringstead Bay, Isle of Purbeck
Date: 11 October 2015.



[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).

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Passeriformes #3

Place: between Curitiba and Morretes, Brazil
Date: 25 April 2014.




Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: 1 May 2014.

[Zonotrichia capensis, Family Arremonidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Rufous-collared sparrow]

The sound of the rufous-collared sparrow (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ricardo José Mitidieri)

Marabou Sunset

Ciconiiformes

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





[Leptoptilos crumenifer, Family Ciconiidae, Order Ciconiiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Marabou stork]

The sound of the marabou stork (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Josh Engel)

Young African Fish Eagle

Accipitriformes

Place: Okavango River, Botswana
Date: 21 August 2012.



[Icthyophaga vocifer, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: African fish eagle]

The sound of the African fish eagle (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist James Bradley)

Curlew

Charadriiformes

Place: Titchwell Marshes, Norfolk
Date: 2 September 2015.


Place: Angle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 29 September 2013.


Place: Wells-Next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Date: 4 September 2015.


[Numenius arquata, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Curlew]

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

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