Selected Kestrels

Falconiformes

Place: Leeds Castle, Kent
Date: 4 July 2016.

Place: Punta del Dichoso, Suances, Cantabria, northern Spain
Date: 19 September 2018.

Place: St. David’s Head, Pembrokeshire
Date: 15 July 2021.

Place: Shieldaig Falconry, Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands
Date: 10 September 2021.

Place: Oxwich National Nature Reserve, Gower
Date: 22 July 2022.

Place: Lavenham, Suffolk
Date: 30 September 2022.

[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).

Feral Pigeon/Rock Dove

Columbiformes

Place: Montjuic, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Date: 14 May 2016.

Place: Castelo Sesimbra, Setubal district, Portugal
Date: 9 September 2018.

Place: Roath Park Lake, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.

Place: Innsbruck, Austria
Date: 18 August 2019.

Place: Pembrokeshire Coast Path near Manorbier
Date: 21 July 2020.

Place: Coast path south of St. Justinian, Pembrokeshire
Date: 16 July 2021.

Place: Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Date: 3 November 2021.

Place: Tarbert Castle, Argyll, Scotland
Date: 7 June 2022.

Place: Cosmeston Lakes Medieval Village, Penarth
Date: 10 October 2022.

[Columba livia, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Rock dove]

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

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

Various House Sparrows

Passeriformes #3

Place: Figueras, Catalunya, Spain
Date: 20 June 2016.

Place: Kardamyli, West Man, Messenia, Greece
Date: 8 September 2019.

Place: WWT Stears Marshes, Somerset
Date: 24 July 2020.

Place: Llanddona beach, Anglesey
Date: 27 September 2020.

Place: Warden Centre Hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2020.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 29 November 2020.

[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).

Black Redstart

Passeriformes #2

Place: Pescasseroli, Abruzzo National Park, Italy
Date: 21 Septemer 2019.

Place: Santa Cruz de la Seros, Aragon, Spain
Date: 24 Septemer 2019.

[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).

Various Herring Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Penzance, Cornwall
Date: 28 May 2013.

Place: Mevagissey Harbour, Cornwall
Date: 27 October 2012.

Place: Hastings, Kent
Date: 3 July 2016.

Place: Marimurtra Botanical Gardens near Blanes, Catalunya
Date: 17 June 2016.

Place: Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
Date: 13 July 2017.

Place: The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
Date: 13 February 2019.

Place: Mullion Cove, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall
Date: 18 April 2019.

Place: Porthleven, Cornwall
Date: 18 April 2019.

[Larus argentatus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: European herring gull]

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

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

Juvenile Moorhen

Gruiformes

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

Place: Zaragoza, Spain
Date: 21 June 2016.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 3 October 2016.

[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).

Various Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Arlington Court near Barnstaple, Devon
Date: 27 June 2009.

Place: Orgiva, near Granada, Andalucia
Date: 8 June 2015.

Place: Shapwick Moor, Somerset Levels
Date: 11 October 2016.

Place: Hinton Ampner estate, Hampshire
Date: 7 April 2017.

[Fringilla coelebs, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chaffinch]

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

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

Yellow-legged Gulls from Iberia

Charadriiformes

Place: Luarca, Asturias, northern Spain
Date: 23 August 2018.

Place: Cabo Espichel, south-western coast of Portugal
Date: 8 September 2018.

Place: Cabo de Sao Vicente, south-western tip of Portugal
Date: 11 September 2018.

[Larus michahellis, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Yellow-legged gull]

The sound of the yellow-legged gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sean Ronayne)

Distribution of the yellow-legged gull across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

House Martin Young and Nests

Passeriformes #1

Place: Priego de Cordoba, Andalucia
Date: 10 June 2015.

Place: Ogmore-by-Sea, South Wales
Date: 20 May 2018.

Place: Kellie Castle, Fife, Scotland
Date: 23 June 2018.

Place: Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
Date: 27 June 2018.

[Delichon urbicum, Family Hirundinidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common house martin]

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

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

Serins from Iberia

Passeriformes #3

Place: Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, north-west Spain
Date: 24 August 2018.

Place: Ponte de Lima, northern Portugal
Date: 27 August 2018.

Place: Mêda, north-eastern Portugal
Date: 2 September 2018.

[Serinus serinus, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European serin]

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

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